2014
DOI: 10.1038/nature13139
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Predicting biodiversity change and averting collapse in agricultural landscapes

Abstract: The equilibrium theory of island biogeography is the basis for estimating extinction rates and a pillar of conservation science. The default strategy for conserving biodiversity is the designation of nature reserves, treated as islands in an inhospitable sea of human activity. Despite the profound influence of islands on conservation theory and practice, their mainland analogues, forest fragments in human-dominated landscapes, consistently defy expected biodiversity patterns based on island biogeography theory… Show more

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“…Moreover, we start our approach by identifying tree cover at the finest spatial scales feasible using satellite images, for two reasons. First, previous studies of bats and birds suggest that biodiversity responds to changes in small areas, such as the area inside a circle with a 50-to 70-m radius (3,19). Second, resampling or aggregating tree cover from smaller to larger scales is simple with spatial data.…”
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confidence: 99%
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“…Moreover, we start our approach by identifying tree cover at the finest spatial scales feasible using satellite images, for two reasons. First, previous studies of bats and birds suggest that biodiversity responds to changes in small areas, such as the area inside a circle with a 50-to 70-m radius (3,19). Second, resampling or aggregating tree cover from smaller to larger scales is simple with spatial data.…”
Section: Resultsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…We focused on remotely sensing tree cover because it is a good predictor of biodiversity in deforested tropical regions (3,19). Moreover, we start our approach by identifying tree cover at the finest spatial scales feasible using satellite images, for two reasons.…”
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“…Although one study has suggested that landscapes dominated by crops and open fields have a stronger negative influence on bats than water (Ekman and de Jong 1996), a recent analysis of bat responses to isolation on islands versus in forest fragments embedded in agricultural matrix suggests that the anthropogenic matrix is more permeable than water matrix (Mendenhall et al 2014). Thus, agricultural intensification at the landscape level should make the matrix less permeable due to the reduction of natural resources and structural elements such as trees, affecting not only the persistence of bats in fragmented landscapes, but also the degree to which bat assemblages show a negative response to agriculture.…”
Section: Effects Of Agricultural Intensity On Bat Assemblage Structurmentioning
confidence: 99%