I was driving to work yesterday, and a squirrel darted in front of my car. He nearly lost his life. He does it several times a day. Every day. One of these days he won’t make it to the other side. Why ...

A University of Florida professor visited the University of Connecticut on Thursday, Feb. 5, to discuss the impact of habitat fragmentation and drought on tropical plants.

Aim: Human conversion of land leads to habitat loss and fragmentation. The effects of habitat loss are well-established, but the effects of fragmentation beyond those of habitat loss, “fragmentation ...

This article originally appeared on The Revelator. Imagine a vast agricultural field, endless rows of soy or corn running for acres in every direction. Now imagine that this field grows where a mighty ...

Introduction : habitat fragmentation and western birds / T. Luke George and David S. Dobkin -- Multi-scale perspective of the effects of forest fragmentation on birds in eastern forests / Frank R.

Bruna, Emilio M., Fiske, Ian J., and Trager, Mathew D. 2009. "Habitat fragmentation and plant populations: is what we know demographically irrelevant?" Journal of ...

Tropical forest birds, which tend to have wings that are short and round relative to their body length and shape, are more sensitive to habitat fragmentation than the long-, slender-winged species ...

Habitat fragmentation is a landscape-level process in which continuous habitats are subdivided into smaller, isolated patches by natural or anthropogenic disturbances, altering spatial configuration ...