Living on the edge

Thomas Brooks ()
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Thomas Brooks: Zoological Museum, University of Copenhagen, University of Cambridge, and the Center for Applied Biodiversity Science, Conservation International

Nature, 2000, vol. 403, issue 6765, 26-29

Abstract: Against conventional ecological wisdom, it seems that a species in decline will usually retreat to the edges of the area it once occupied. This is because human impacts, such as deforestation, tend to sweep all before them as they move across a landscape, overwhelming the previous ecological patterns.

Date: 2000
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