Small mammal responses to long-term large-scale woodland creation: the influence of local and landscape-level attributes.

ABSTRACT: Habitat loss and fragmentation greatly affect biological diversity. Actions to counteract their negative effects include increasing the quality, amount and connectivity of seminatural habitats at the landscape scale. However, much of the scientific evidence underpinning landscape restoration comes from studies of habitat loss and fragmentation, and it is unclear whether the ecological principles derived from habitat removal investigations are applicable to habitat creation. In addition, the relative importance of local- (e.g., improving habitat quality) vs. landscape-level (e.g., increasing habitat connectivity) actions to restore species is largely unknown, partly because studying species responses over sufficiently large spatial and temporal scales is challenging. We studied small mammal

SUBMITTER: Fuentes-Montemayor E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7079043 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature