Sentences with phrase «other forest fragments»

By maintaining abundant forest cover in shade coffee plantations, they can function as buffer zones and can form the backbone to the biological corridor linking the two national parks and other forest fragments.

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In other words, as lead author and L.S.U. ornithologist Phillip Stouffer says quote «developing second growth forest around fragments encourages recolonization.»

To make matters worse, intact habitat has been shrinking as farming and other human activities have fragmented forests and other natural areas.

Like researchers studying other logged forests, she found evidence of an «edge effect»: the density of shade - tolerant seedlings decreased within several hundred meters of the fragment edge, where young trees are more exposed to sun, wind, and competition from invading species.

For instance, Pimm and a small group of other scientists are now buying up cattle pastures in Brazil to try to connect fragments of highly diverse — and highly threatened — coastal forests.

He adds that the same applies to other endangered species of tropical tree with large fruit and seeds dispersed by birds, as evidence from other fragmented tropical forests around the world shows that seeds of this kind are dispersed only locally.

The other three inhabited a fragmented, tall rainforest; a continuous, semi-deciduous seasonal forest; and a rehabilitation center.

Williams and others say that eventually, so many western forests will burn, they will become too fragmented for fires to spread easily, and the growth in fire will cease.

Cattle ranching, agriculture and other human activities are breaking up Costa Rican forests into isolated patchy fragments, but causing more problems for native plant populations than for monkey species sharing the same habitat.

These nests tend to be constructed more often within a fragmented deciduous forest than any other type of habitat (Jessop et al, 2004).