http://conservationbytes.com/2009/08/12/fragmen-borealis-degradation-of-the-worlds-last-great-forest/ Conservation research... with bite Tue, 29 May 2012 05:05:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://conservationbytes.com/2009/08/12/fragmen-borealis-degradation-of-the-worlds-last-great-forest/#comment-14089 Tue, 24 Apr 2012 04:29:50 +0000 http://conservationbytes.com/?p=2470#comment-14089 [...] of deforestation trends around Australia and the world. The idea is that because of intense habitat fragmentation, isolated patches of primary (or at least, reasonably intact secondary) forest can be linked by [...]

]]> http://conservationbytes.com/2009/08/12/fragmen-borealis-degradation-of-the-worlds-last-great-forest/#comment-13826 Thu, 05 Apr 2012 11:03:25 +0000 http://conservationbytes.com/?p=2470#comment-13826 [...] know a thing or two about road-driven habitat fragmentation – Canada has now some of the most fragmented portions of the boreal forest, with < 40 % of its area considered ‘contiguous’ (i.e., not bisected by [...]

]]> http://conservationbytes.com/2009/08/12/fragmen-borealis-degradation-of-the-worlds-last-great-forest/#comment-13108 Wed, 29 Feb 2012 03:29:11 +0000 http://conservationbytes.com/?p=2470#comment-13108 [...] years ago, my colleagues (Navjot Sodhi† and Ian Warkentin) and I wrote a major review in TREE about the fate of the world’s ‘second’ lung of the planet, the great [...]

]]> http://conservationbytes.com/2009/08/12/fragmen-borealis-degradation-of-the-worlds-last-great-forest/#comment-11462 Mon, 12 Dec 2011 00:45:38 +0000 http://conservationbytes.com/?p=2470#comment-11462 [...] over my career, and most recently with a review published in Trends in Ecology and Evolution on the knife-edge plight of boreal biodiversity and carbon stores. That paper was in fact the result of a brain-storming session Navjot Sodhi and I had one day [...]

]]> http://conservationbytes.com/2009/08/12/fragmen-borealis-degradation-of-the-worlds-last-great-forest/#comment-3604 Wed, 28 Apr 2010 15:13:30 +0000 http://conservationbytes.com/?p=2470#comment-3604 [...] loss around the world, including accumulated estimates of tropical forest loss and increasing fragmentation/loss in the boreal forest (see Bradshaw et al. 2009 Front Ecol Evol & Bradshaw et al. 2009 Trends Ecol Evol). For the [...]

]]> http://conservationbytes.com/2009/08/12/fragmen-borealis-degradation-of-the-worlds-last-great-forest/#comment-2773 Wed, 26 Aug 2009 16:42:38 +0000 http://conservationbytes.com/?p=2470#comment-2773 [...] conserve the boreal forest in Canada; sign a letter of support for sustainable land-use planning. Scientists [...]

]]> http://conservationbytes.com/2009/08/12/fragmen-borealis-degradation-of-the-worlds-last-great-forest/#comment-2743 Tue, 18 Aug 2009 21:39:45 +0000 http://conservationbytes.com/?p=2470#comment-2743 [...] has two great posts up recently, one on a paper he published in TREE on the worrying decline of boreal forests, and the other of the importance of very common species, which actually tend to be quite rare (when [...]

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