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[http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/1/2/e1500052.full-text.pdf+html '''Habitat fragmentation and its lasting impact on Earth’s ecosystems / March 2015''']
[http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/1/2/e1500052.full-text.pdf+html '''Habitat fragmentation and its lasting impact on Earth’s ecosystems / March 2015''']
[http://www.salon.com/2015/03/23/this_is_absolutely_terrifying_%E2%80%9Cthere_are_really_only_two_big_patches_of_intact_forest_left_on_earth/ '''“There are really only two big patches of intact forest left on Earth”''']
... the studies showed that when patches of forest become smaller and more isolated, the abundance of birds, mammal, insects and plants decreases in kind — those pressures, the authors write, reduced the species’ ability to persist.


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Extinction issues -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extinction

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Habitat fragmentation and its lasting impact on Earth’s ecosystems / March 2015

“There are really only two big patches of intact forest left on Earth”

... the studies showed that when patches of forest become smaller and more isolated, the abundance of birds, mammal, insects and plants decreases in kind — those pressures, the authors write, reduced the species’ ability to persist.

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The Sixth Extinction by Elizabeth Kolbert, published February 2014

Editorial Reviews

Reader Comments

Wikipedia / Book: The Sixth Extinction by Elizabeth Kolbert


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Biodiversity -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biodiversity

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http://www.biodiversitya-z.org/

http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/

http://www.biodiversitymapping.org/visualizations.htm

http://www.eol.org/

http://globaia.org/

http://www.biodiversityassociation.org/‎