Sentences with phrase «between forest fragments»

The report identified over 40 key actions needed to boost gibbon numbers and ensure their long - term survival, including enhancing monitoring systems to keep track of remaining individuals, creating canopy bridges between forest fragments to expand their habitat range, and limiting disturbance by people in forested areas.

Unlike sun coffee systems, which do not provide pollinators with resources throughout the year (Jha and Vandermeer 2010) and are less permeable to dispersing organisms (e.g., Muriel and Kattan 2009), shade coffee farms can promote pollinator populations and serve as corridors for organisms moving regionally between forest fragments.

Not exact matches

The authors examine the concept and importance of maintaining connectivity (ability of wildlife populations to move among landscapes between habitat «islands» such as mountain tops, forest fragments and isolated wetlands) and corridor ecology.

The composition of microbes on frog skin can reflect the environment, and environmental conditions — including solar radiation and temperature regimes — differ between continuous and fragmented forests.

The researchers found that for one frog (Proceratophrys boiei), microbe diversity was more than twice as high in continuous forest than in fragments (149 vs. 61 morphotypes, respectively), and its bacterial density varied between these forests.

The last remaining fragment of that primeval European wilderness — half a million acres of woods straddling the border between Poland and Belarus, called the Bialowieza Forest — provides another glimpse of how the world would look if we were gone.

We think that there are few explanations, but a strong one is that because the Amazon is more fragmented, there are more edges between the deforested land and forests.

68: 1061 - 1078 Brooks, T. M., Pimm, S. L., & Oyugi, J. O. Time lag between deforestationand bird extinction in tropical forest fragments.

As pockets of forest habitat are isolated, their edges are exposed to harsher, brighter, drier conditions and plant and animal dispersal between habitat fragments is made more difficult; in addition, habitat fragments may be too small to sustain populations of some species.

Except that, according to new research published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, based on case studies throughout Central and South America it doesn't quite work that way: Agroecological Techniques Needed to Maintain Biodiversity Corridors Ivette Perfecto of the University of Michigan says the best way to preserve biodiversity in fragmented areas of tropical forest is to allow animals to migrate between the patches.