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SUBMITTER: Riitters KH
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3440623 | biostudies-literature | 2012
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Riitters Kurt H KH Wickham James D JD
Scientific reports 20120913
Forest fragmentation threatens the sustainability of forest interior environments, thereby endangering subordinate ecological attributes and functions. We analyzed the spatial patterns of forest loss and gain for the conterminous United States from 2001 to 2006 to determine whether forest interior environments were maintained at five spatial scales. A 1.1% net loss of total forest area translated to net losses of 3.2% to 10.5% of forest interior area over spatial scales of 4.41 ha to 5,310 ha. A ...[more]