Science news articles about 'habitat patches'

... where habitat fragments are seen as individual nodes in larger networks of interconnected habitat patches. According to the study, published yesterday in Ecography, sets of small habitat patches ...

Sets of small and seemingly insignificant habitat patches that are within reach for mobile species may under certain circumstances, as a group, provide an acceptable alternative to larger and ...

... professors of biology in Arts & Sciences. Corridors are thin strips of habitat that connect isolated habitat patches in fragmented landscapes. The landscape is composed of central square "patch" ...

... out of production in less than a century. Given that potential---as well as their roles in connecting habitat patches, preserving genetic diversity and sheltering native wildlife---it is important to ...

... the need for a rethink on urban and rural development policies – a sufficient density of habitat patches is vital to assist butterflies and other species to shift their distributions in response to ...

... to be affected by the fence, especially species that have low rates of movement among habitat patches." Epps, who is an assistant professor in the Department of Fisheries and Wildlife at Oregon State ...