What is it about?
Control of deforestation over a landscape may hide the effect of continuous forest fragmentation. Overtime, the latter may have significant negative impact on exchange of materials and energy in the ecosystem, contribute to increased depletion of vital forest resources and the disappearance of wildlife from previously known areas.
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Why is it important?
Findings from this study revealed that forest cover increase does not necessarily lead to improved landscape connectivity and a balanced exchange of materials and energy in a landscape.
Perspectives
This is a retrospective study which I hope will help in landscape planning especially during the cost benefit analysis of alternative landuse planning and decision making.
Research Fellow Kayode Adewale Adepoju
University of the Free State
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This page is a summary of: Geospatial Assessment of Forest Fragmentation and its Implications for Ecological Processes in Tropical Forests, Journal of Landscape Ecology, January 2017, De Gruyter,
DOI: 10.1515/jlecol-2017-0002.
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