The Disease Bridge: How Our Cities Are Inviting Wildlife Viruses In As suburbs expand into forests, grasslands, and wetlands, ...

Aim: Human conversion of land leads to habitat loss and fragmentation. The effects of habitat loss are well-established, but the effects of fragmentation beyond those of habitat loss, “fragmentation ...

This article originally appeared on The Revelator. Imagine a vast agricultural field, endless rows of soy or corn running for acres in every direction. Now imagine that this field grows where a mighty ...

A University of Florida professor visited the University of Connecticut on Thursday, Feb. 5, to discuss the impact of habitat fragmentation and drought on tropical plants.

Habitat fragmentation is a landscape-level process in which continuous habitats are subdivided into smaller, isolated patches by natural or anthropogenic disturbances, altering spatial configuration ...

The charismatic, robust, and impressive North American mountain sheep is losing its habitat to industrial mining, the changing climate, and human activity. And unless action is taken to protect this ...

Tropical forest birds, which tend to have wings that are short and round relative to their body length and shape, are more sensitive to habitat fragmentation than the long-, slender-winged species ...

I was driving to work yesterday, and a squirrel darted in front of my car. He nearly lost his life. He does it several times a day. Every day. One of these days he won’t make it to the other side. Why ...

Amphibians across the tropics are facing a global decline, with disease caused by the chytrid fungus Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis (Bd) playing an especially significant role in losses. According to ...

Thami Croeser receives funding from the Ian Potter Foundation. Holly Kirk receives funding from the Australian Research Council and the Ian Potter Foundation. Imagine you’re a fairywren living in a ...