How do habitat amount and habitat fragmentation drive time-delayed responses of biodiversity to land-use change?

ABSTRACT: Land-use change is a root cause of the extinction crisis, but links between habitat change and biodiversity loss are not fully understood. While there is evidence that habitat loss is an important extinction driver, the relevance of habitat fragmentation remains debated. Moreover, while time delays of biodiversity responses to habitat transformation are well-documented, time-delayed effects have been ignored in the habitat loss versus fragmentation debate. Here, using a hierarchical Bayesian multi-species occupancy framework, we systematically tested for time-delayed responses of bird and mammal communities to habitat loss and to habitat fragmentation. We focused on the Argentine Chaco, where deforestation has been widespread recently. We used an extensive field dataset on birds and mammal

SUBMITTER: Semper-Pascual A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7892401 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature