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Biodiversity Conservation in Britain: Science Replacing Tradition
In some circumstances, edges are beneficial, but a rapidly increasing scientific literature suggests organisms of the edge and matrix around a habitat ...
www.eco-action.org

PROJECT SUMMARY
Results The following constitute a highlight of the major results of 15 years of ... survival of commercially important trees Early results demonstrating a complex suite of factors affecting habitat fragments led to an expansion of the research activities supported by the BDFFP. While we ...
www.mnh.si.edu

Biodiversity Conservation System
Even on ... may be divided into two broad categories: direct (hunting, collection and persecution), and indirect (habitat destruction and modification). Overhunting is perhaps the most obvious direct cause of extinction in ...
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The Heinz Center - HEINZ CENTER PRESIDENT TOM LOVEJOY ON HABITAT FRAGMENTATION AND TIME TO EXTINCTION
From those declining numbers, the authors derive a rule for the time it takes to lose half the species in habitat fragments of different sizes. What they found is that fragments smaller than one square ... latest findings of the Biological Dynamics of Forest Fragments Project (BDFFP), founded in 1979 by Dr. ...
heinzctr.org

Box turtle population – box turtle pets
Habitat Loss and Fragmentation Habitat loss and fragmentation are major threats to box turtles. ... habitat gone, Ornate Box Turtles are often stranded in small, isolated habitat fragments. Construction and road development can also leave Three-toed Box Turtles isolated in woodland remnants. Box turtle populations stranded in habitat fragments ...
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Box turtle population – box turtle pets
Habitat Loss and Fragmentation Habitat loss and fragmentation are major threats to box turtles. ... habitat gone, Ornate Box Turtles are often stranded in small, isolated habitat fragments. Construction and road development can also leave Three-toed Box Turtles isolated in woodland remnants. Box turtle populations stranded in habitat fragments ...
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Endangered Species - Spot-Tailed Quolls (Tiger Quolls)
This means they need extremely large areas of habitat to maintain their territory and thus their survival. One of the recommendations for the quolls ... but to facilitate logging. Logging is a major threat to Quolls as it destroys their habitat, fragments their communities and kills their food supply. Logging roads not only facilitate logging, but also ...
www.geco.org.au

New Coral Reef Habitat Gila Isla
PHOTOS REEF ISSUES RESTORATION PAPERS LINKS New Coral Reef Habitat Gila Islands News December 13, 2004 Monday, December 13, 2004 New coral reef habitat Should you be fortunate enough find yourself ... In order to accelerate the process, the Vila Ombak Diving Academy team collected live coral fragments already detached from surrounding healthy reef, and physically attached them to the structure, a ...
globalcoral.org

Office of Habitat Conservation
Natural recovery of coral and ... ; Evaluate benefits of using vessels as artificial reefs; Develop sources of coral fragments; Enhance restoration research; and Increase community awareness of restoration efforts. Return to ...
www.nmfs.noaa.gov

Desert Habitat - Defenders of Wildlife
Wolf, Gray Wolverine Woodland Caribou Woodpeckers -- Habitats -- Desert Forest Grasslands Marine Wetlands Wildlife & Habitat Home Desert Habitat Economic Oasis Learn more about the economic values of the ecologically and culturally ... -arid deserts the soil can range from sandy and fine-textured to loose rock fragments, gravel or sand. Polar regions are also considered to be deserts because nearly all ...
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