Accessible forests The team, led by Nick Haddad from North Carolina State University, used the world’s first high-resolution satellite map of tree cover to measure how isolated remaining forests ...

Fragmentation can occur naturally, through forest fires or other disturbances, but most forest fragmentation today is done by humans. Some of the patches are cleared for farmland, or low-density ...

Some of these, including the Brazilian Atlantic forest, Tropical Andes and Himalayas, share a toxic mix of hyperdiversity, endemic species with tiny ranges, and severe fragmentation.

A new study has found that a group of climbing plants called lianas spring up in higher numbers along the edges of fragmented forests than they do in less-disturbed patches.

“There are really only two big patches of intact forest left on Earth -- the Amazon and the Congo -- and they shine out like eyes from the center of the map,” lead author Nick Haddad, a ...

With the help of FORMIND, a forest simulation software developed at the UFZ, the researchers modeled different sizes of forest patches left over after landscape fragmentation. The smaller a patch ...

A new study shows why tropical birds are likely to be more vulnerable to forest fragmentation, and suggests conservation policies need to take into account the role of climate in determining the ...

Large, undisturbed forests are better for harboring biodiversity than fragmented landscapes, according to recent research. Ecologists agree that habitat loss and the fragmentation of forests ...