For this article, I reviewed empirical studies finding significant ecological responses to
habitat fragmentation per se—in other words, significant responses to fragmentation …

Habitat destruction and fragmentation are the root causes of many conservation problems.
We conducted a literature survey and canvassed the ecological community to identify …

I challenge (1) the assumption that habitat patches are natural units of measurement for
species richness, and (2) the assumption of distinct effects of habitat patch size and isolation …

We sampled understory insectivorous birds in Amazonian forest fragments from before
isolation through 9 yr after isolation. We accumulated 3658 mist net captures of 84 …

Many species of vertebrates require multiple habitats to obtain different resources at different
stages of their life-cycles. Use of habitat mosaics takes place on a variety of spatial and …

An increasing proportion of ecological studies examine landscape effects on the
phenomena they address. We reviewed studies which simultaneously considered …

To evaluate the impact of fragmentation on forest regeneration, I measured the abundance
of shade‐tolerant, mature‐phase tree seedlings (individuals 5–100 cm tall) in unfragmented …

The importance of large reserves has been long maintained in the scientific literature, often
leading to dismissal of the conservation potential of small reserves. However, over half the …

One of the central questions of conservation biology is what life-history traits render a
species prone to extinction. We addressed this problem by calculating extinction rates for 35 …

Fragmentation in seagrass systems results in changes to landscape features that may have
implications for fauna. We examine published studies to identify whether faunal abundance …