Ecology of Fragmented Landscapes Stephen James Minton Great Durnford

Great Durnford

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a retired curator with more than thirty years of experience

Ecology of Fragmented Landscapes Stephen James Minton Great DurnfordAsk airline passengers what they see as they gaze out the window, and they will describe a fragmented landscape: a patchwork of desert, farmlands, and developed neighborhoods. Once contiguous forests are now subdivided; tallgrass prairies that extended for thousands of miles are now crisscrossed by highways and byways. Whether the result of naturally occurring environmental changes or the product of seemingly unchecked human development, fractured