Sentences with phrase «closest forest fragments»

Now, a new University of Utah - led study, appearing in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, shows that targeted forest regeneration among the largest and closest forest fragments in the Eastern Arc Mountains of Tanzania and the Atlantic Forest of Brazil can dramatically reduce extinction rates of bird species over time.

Not exact matches

By going to 300 - meter resolution — closer to the size of fragmented forests and crop fields — FLEX should allow plant physiologists to understand how specific plants respond to different environmental stresses.

They found that forest fragmentation in all three continents is close to a critical point beyond which fragment number will strongly increase.