The study proposes a conceptual approach to fragmentation that can help academics, practitioners, and decision-makers understand the origins and consequences of institutional fragmentation on the timely use of resources, and to develop governance structures and mechanisms that can help reduce it in post-disaster reconstruction initiatives.
Island biogeography theory (IBT) provides a basic conceptual model for understanding habitat fragmentation.
As for the proof for the existence of minima naturalia itself, it begins by repeating that division is spoken of in two ways: physical division which brings about an actual division, severance or fragmentation of the magnitude and conceptual division which involves a mere mental division or positing that leaves the magnitude intact.
During the Renaissance, medieval theology suffered further fragmentation, but theologians also acquired new conceptual tools.
Operationalism in this guise can be used as a secure method of conceptual extension, not prone to the kind of fragmentation that Hempel feared.
Here we develop a new conceptual framework that explicitly considers the links between landscape fragmentation, the supply of services, and the flow of services to people.
Here we present and test a new conceptual model describing the mechanisms and consequences of biodiversity change in fragmented landscapes, identifying the fragmentation threshold as a first step in a positive feedback mechanism that has the capacity to impair ecological resilience, and drive a regime shift in biodiversity.
We conducted a systematic review to assess where – the geographic locations and habitat types - and how – the study designs, conceptual underpinnings, landscape metrics and biodiversity measures - scientists have studied fragmentation over the last two decades.
I mean, "Bluets" has the most to do with fragmentation, in that it's explicitly interested in the fragment — both found and made — as a physical phenomenon and conceptual idea.
