Sentence examples for increasing forest fragmentation from inspiring English sources
Our models suggest that detection probability declined with increasing forest fragmentation.
Genetic differentiation among populations was greater in the smaller tree group than in larger one, suggesting that more recently established individuals are exposed to greater genetic isolation than the mature individuals owing to increasing forest fragmentation over time.
The NJPB has and is continuing to experience rapid rural development and urbanization that are altering the types, frequency, and intensity of forest management, and are increasing forest fragmentation.
While Acer platanoides is a relatively new threat to established forests, the convergence of increasing forest fragmentation through urban sprawl and the accelerating invasion of Norway maples into established forests could quickly tip the balance and complete its penetration of the forest in the northeastern US, and possibly elsewhere.
Many of these populations are now isolated by increasing forest fragmentation, which will lead to decreased reproduction via inbreeding depression and eventual extinction even without complete deforestation.
Lemur diversity is tightly linked with plant diversity, which in turn decreases with increased forest fragmentation.
The first axis represented a landscape gradient from agricultural to woodland, with increasing forest patch size and edge habitat and decreasing degree of fragmentation.
We find that interior villages have a negative impact on regeneration, but there is a decline in tree species diversity, and increased forest cover change and fragmentation at the park periphery.
All fragmentation indices used indicated an increase in forest fragmentation.
Recent analyses conducted by my research team suggest major new hotspots of deforestation will be created by the roads, along with sharp increases in forest fragmentation, biodiversity loss, and greenhouse-gas emissions.
These results suggest an increase in forest fragmentation from 1957 to 2003, as well as a change in the nature of the habitat surrounding forest patches.
