Most species experienced reduction and fragmentation of ranges [4] [5] because of intrusion by uninhabitable continental ice sheets, distributional shifts and fragmentation of primary habitats such as coniferous forests or deserts, and the development of unfavorable climate conditions beyond species' physiological tolerances.
It was there that he studied the enormous damage being suffered by wildlife as a direct result of the reduction and fragmentation of the Dorset heathlands.
Forests were the most threatened physiognomy, with significant areal reduction and fragmentation.
And Lyme disease, the East Coast scourge, is very much a product of human changes to the environment: the reduction and fragmentation of large contiguous forests.
Invasion by non-native tree species is a major driver of reduction and fragmentation of forest ecosystems, also altering biodiversity components.
Habitat reduction and fragmentation has been suggested as one hypothesis for the decline of the lesser horseshoe bat Rhinolophus hipposideros in most of western and central Europe.
The evolution of the regional thermal landscape can be characterized by increases in the LST, greater complexity of the thermal landscape structure, increase and aggregation of high-temperature areas, and reduction and fragmentation of low-temperature areas.
Another driving force for the reduction in fragmentation could be the Nexus suite of phones and tablets.
Considered the "sumps" and "receivers" of industrial and domestic wastes and other land-use effluents, freshwater systems are exceptionally vulnerable to anthropogenic influence, often resulting in habitat loss, species range reduction or fragmentation, and higher susceptibility to exotic species invasion.
Roles for mammalian Syx5 in both anterograde and retrograde vesicular transport have been well characterized and severe Syx5 reduction causes fragmentation and dispersal of the Golgi [21], [30].
