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Approaches to Understanding Habitat Fragmentation

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Two approaches that are typically used to understand habitat fragmentation and its ecological impacts

Species Oriented Approach:
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The species oriented approach focuses specifically on individual species and how they each respond to their environment and habitat changes with in it. This approach can be limited because it does only focus on individual species and does not allow for a broad view of the impacts of habitat fragmentation across species.[1]

Pattern Oriented Approach
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The pattern oriented approach is based on land cover and its patterning in correlation with species occurrences. There are typically two models of study for landscape patterning which include the patch-matrix-corridor model developed by Richard Forman. The other model is the variegation model. Variegated landscapes retain much of their natural vegetation but are intermixed with gradients of modified habitat Cite error: A <ref> tag is missing the closing </ref> (see the help page).

  1. ^ Fischer, Joern; Lindenmayer, David B. (February 7, 2007). "Landscape Modification and Habitat Fragmentation: A synthesis". Global Ecology and Biogeography. 16 (3): 265. doi:https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1466-8238.2007.00287.x. Retrieved March 22, 2018. {{cite journal}}: Check |doi= value (help); External link in |doi= (help); More than one of |pages= and |page= specified (help)