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Ecological Determinants of Species Loss in Remnant Prairies
Abstract
Recensuses of 54 Wisconsin prairie remnants showed that 8 to 60 percent of the original plant species were lost from individual remnants over a 32- to 52-year period. The pattern of species loss was consistent with the proposed effects of fire suppression caused by landscape fragmentation. Short, small-seeded, or nitrogen-fixing plants showed the heaviest losses, as did species growing in the wettest, most productive environments. The interruption of landscape-scale processes (such as wildfire) by fragmentation is an often overlooked mechanism that may be eroding biodiversity in many habitats around the world.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Leach, M. K., & Givnish, T. J.
- Venue
- Science
- Published
- 1996-09-13
- Volume
- 273
- Issue
- 5281
- Pages
- 1555-1558
- ISSN
- 0036-8075 (ISSN-L)
- 1095-9203
- OpenAlex
- W1986514259
- Cited by
- 493
- References
- 27
- FWCI
- 14.85
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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