How fragmentation and corridors affect wind dynamics and seed dispersal in open habitats.

ABSTRACT: Determining how widespread human-induced changes such as habitat loss, landscape fragmentation, and climate instability affect populations, communities, and ecosystems is one of the most pressing environmental challenges. Critical to this challenge is understanding how these changes are affecting the movement abilities and dispersal trajectories of organisms and what role conservation planning can play in promoting movement among remaining fragments of suitable habitat. Whereas evidence is mounting for how conservation strategies such as corridors impact animal movement, virtually nothing is known for species dispersed by wind, which are often mistakenly assumed to not be limited by dispersal. Here, we combine mechanistic dispersal models, wind measurements, and seed releases in a large-sc

SUBMITTER: Damschen EI 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3948294 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature