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ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Rybicki J
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7027465 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Ecology letters 20191220 3
Habitat loss is one of the key drivers of the ongoing decline of biodiversity. However, ecologists still argue about how fragmentation of habitat (independent of habitat loss) affects species richness. The recently proposed habitat amount hypothesis posits that species richness only depends on the total amount of habitat in a local landscape. In contrast, empirical studies report contrasting patterns: some find positive and others negative effects of fragmentation per se on species richness. To ...[more]