Forty years of bias in habitat fragmentation research

Effective Conservation Science: Data Not Dogma

Volumn , Issue , 2017, Pages 32-38

  Fahrig, Lenore ^a  

^a CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Confirmation bias; Confounded variables; Habitat fragmentation; Habitat loss

Indexed keywords

EID: 85033211934     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780198808978.003.0005     Document Type: Chapter

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