'Cryptic' interactions drive biodiversity decline near the edge of forest fragments

When humans cut contiguous tropical forests into smaller fragments, ecologists say, forests along the edges of those fragments tend to experience a number of changes (e.g. higher temperatures, lower humidity), collectively known as "edge effects." One such edge effect is a decline in tree species diversity. What causes this effect, however, has never been fully understood.

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