MACROECOLOGY 30TH ANNIVERSARY
Habitat fragmentation: A long and tangled tale
Lenore Fahrig,
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Lenore Fahrig
Carleton University, Canada
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Lenore Fahrig, Geomatics and Landscape Ecology Laboratory, Department of Biology, Carleton University, Ottawa, ON K1S 5B6, Canada.
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Lenore Fahrig,
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Lenore Fahrig
Carleton University, Canada
Correspondence
Lenore Fahrig, Geomatics and Landscape Ecology Laboratory, Department of Biology, Carleton University, Ottawa, ON K1S 5B6, Canada.
Email: [email protected]
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In this essay: I provide a brief history of habitat fragmentation research; I describe why its “non-questions” (‘Is habitat fragmentation a big problem for wildlife species?” and, “Are the effects of habitat fragmentation generally negative or positive?”) are important to conservation; I outline my role in tackling these questions; I discuss reasons why the culture of habitat fragmentation research is largely incapable of accepting the answers; and I speculate on the future of habitat fragmentation research.
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