Two forests, one whole and one fragmented, may have exactly the same area, but the fragmented forest will present many more miles of vulnerable edge to the outside world.
Its interior surface was so shallow, the researchers asserted, that it was particularly vulnerable to edge-loading and shedding debris.
The Bulldogs then zeroed in on the Storm's vulnerable left edge and piled on two rapid-fire tries.
The damage was implemented at the vulnerable stiffener edge.
This increases the amount of forest vulnerable to edge effects such as farmland encroachment, lower levels of humidity and a change in plant life.
He needed help; he talks about being "on edge", "vulnerable", "victim of something that terrified me".
Updated at 10.36am GMT 10.27am GMT Europe is also vulnerable to cutting-edge technologies such as 3D printing, Sorrell warns, which allow companies to cut their workforces.
Moreover, managers believed that the policy of letting residents of various degrees of disability dine together violated Virginia state regulations, Mr. Volder said, and left Harbor's Edge vulnerable to lawsuits or revoked licenses.
Even in this Dostoyevskian roman noir of women on the edge — vulnerable on wet night streets, in boarded-up houses, and under railway arches — there are variants of class distinction.
Wallinger's is a modest, unassuming Christ, looking tiny and vulnerable on the edge of his eight-metre plinth, in fact a Christ as we are unused to seeing him, neither a baby in his mother's arms nor a torture victim on the cross, but an ordinary, apprehensive young man.
