Habitat fragmentation causes immediate and time-delayed biodiversity loss at different trophic levels

Ecology Letters

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 597-605

  Krauss, Jochen ^a   Bommarco, Riccardo ^b   Guardiola, Moisès ^c   Heikkinen, Risto K ^d   Helm, Aveliina ^e   Kuussaari, Mikko ^d   Lindborg, Regina ^f   Öckinger, Erik ^b   Pärtel, Meelis ^e   Pino, Joan ^c   Pöyry, Juha ^d   Raatikainen, Katja M ^d   Sang, Anu ^e   Stefanescu, Constantí ^g   Teder, Tiit ^e   Zobel, Martin ^e   Steffan Dewenter, Ingolf ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH   (Germany)

^b SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^d Finnish Environment Institute Research Programme for Biodiversity   (Finland)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

^f STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^g Butterfly Monitoring Scheme   (Spain)

Author keywords

Conservation; Extinction cascades; Extinction debt; Grassland communities; Habitat loss; Habitat management; Landscape change; Relaxation time; Species longevity

Indexed keywords

EID: 77954291474     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: 14610248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2010.01457.x     Document Type: Article

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