Land‐use drivers of forest fragmentation vary with spatial scale

AimImproving our understanding of the drivers of forest fragmentation is fundamental to mitigating the consequences of anthropogenic fragmentation for biodiversity. Moreover, the impacts of fragmentation on biodiversity depend on the spatial scale at which fragmentation occurs. Therefore, understanding how the effect of land use on fragmentation patterns varies across scales is critical to ensure that fragmentation is managed at scales relevant to the ecology of target species or to land management. Here, we quantified the influence of land use on patterns of forest fragmentation at different scales using Queensland, Australia, as a case study.

• Publication year

  2014

• Venue

  Global Ecology and Biogeography

• Publication date

  2014-11-01

• Fields of study

  Geography, Environmental Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1111/GEB.12187
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar

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