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Berry, Lainie. "Edge effects on the distribution and abundance of birds in a southern Victorian forest." Wildlife Research 28, no. 3 (2001): 239. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/wr00057.

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An important consequence of habitat fragmentation for wildlife communities is the effect of an increase in the ratio of habitat edge to interior. This study compares the bird communities at forest/farmland edges and in forest interior at Bunyip State Park, Victoria. Overall, there was a significantly higher number of bird species and individuals in forest edge than in forest interior sites. The greater diversity of species at edge sites appeared to be due to an increase in forest-edge specialists, as opposed to an influx of open-country species. Four bird species: the white-throated treecreepe

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Mullally, Hannah L., David S. Buckley, James A. Fordyce, Beverly Collins, and Charles Kwit. "Bee Communities across Gap, Edge, and Closed-Canopy Microsites in Forest Stands with Group Selection Openings." Forest Science 65, no. 6 (2019): 751–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/forsci/fxz035.

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Abstract As insect pollinator populations continue to decline, it is essential to understand the impacts of anthropogenic activities, including forest management, on pollinator communities. Although multiple studies have shown that clearcutting is beneficial for bees, other less intense, selective silvicultural methods that result in disproportionate increases in edge habitat within stands are less well understood. We investigated bee community characteristics across microsites (center of cut, edge of cut, and closed-canopy forest) in three mixed-mesophytic forest stands subjected to group sel

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Oye, Brian K., and Ryan I. Hill. "Changes in Vertical Stratification of Neotropical Nymphalid Butterflies at Forest Edges Are Not Directly Caused by Light and Temperature Conditions." Insects 16, no. 1 (2025): 64. https://doi.org/10.3390/insects16010064.

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Habitat fragmentation and land use changes threaten neotropical habitats and alter patterns of diversity at forest edges. Like other arthropod assemblages, neotropical fruit-feeding butterfly communities show strong vertical stratification within forests, with some recent work showing its potential role in speciation. At forest edges, species considered to be forest canopy specialists have been observed descending to the forest understory, with the similarity in light conditions between the canopy and understory strata at edges hypothesized to be responsible for this phenomenon. We conducted a

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Neate-Clegg, Montague H. C., Emily C. Morshuis, and Cristina Banks-Leite. "Edge effects in the avifaunal community of riparian rain-forest tracts in Tropical North Queensland." Journal of Tropical Ecology 32, no. 4 (2016): 280–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0266467416000249.

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AbstractMost evidence suggests anthropogenic edges negatively affect rain-forest bird communities but little has been done to test this in Australasia. In this study, avifaunal detection frequency, species richness and community composition were compared between the edge and interior and between flat and more complex-shaped edges of riparian rain-forest tracts in Tropical North Queensland. The detection frequency and richness of guilds based on diet, foraging strata and habitat specialism were also compared. This study detected 15.1% more birds at the rain-forest edge compared with the interio

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Larue, Pierre, Louis Bélanger, and Jean Huot. "Riparian edge effects on boreal balsam fir bird communities." Canadian Journal of Forest Research 25, no. 4 (1995): 555–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/x95-063.

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Riparian forests are often identified as prime habitat for wildlife because of the presence of particular plant communities and edges creating a highly developed and diversified vegetation structure. However, in the northeastern boreal forests of Canada, where narrow land–water ecotones with abrupt edges are quite common, the relative habitat value of riparian forests remains to be demonstrated. We compared bird communities of eight pairs of riparian and nonriparian plots, similar in vegetation structure and composition, to verify the relative value for breeding birds of typical coniferous rip

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Das, Karumampoyil Sakthidas Anoop, Dhanya Radhamany, and Freerk Molleman. "Community Structure in an Isolated Tropical Forest Biome: One Year of Fruit-Feeding Butterfly Trapping in Four Habitats in the Western Ghats, India." Diversity 15, no. 1 (2022): 36. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/d15010036.

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Insect communities in tropical forests tend to be structured vertically and with respect to tree fall gaps and edges. Furthermore, insect communities vary over time. Insight into such habitat specificity and temporal variation is needed to design and interpret biodiversity surveys and to compare conservation value among habitats. Some aspects of tropical insect community structure, such as the proportion of canopy specialists and temporal variation, vary among biogeographical regions and climatic zones. To date, few regions have been sampled systematically, so generalization remains difficult.

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Kopij, G. "Diversity and structure of avian communities in extensive lowland pine forests in relation to the distance from the forest edge." Biosystems Diversity 26, no. 3 (2018): 206–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.15421/011831.

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Most studies on edge effect are related to the forest-field edge, i.e. to the ecotone. However, there is a lack of studies attempting to investigate the effect of the distance from the forest/field edge on the avian communities in large continuous forests. The purpose of this study was to investigate this issue. The study area comprised a continuous coniferous forest, the so called Niemodlin Forest, situated in Opole Silesia, SW Poland. The line transect method has been employed in this study. In total, 54 breeding bird species were recorded. On particular 0.5 km section, the numbers varied fr

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Czaja, Justyna, Zbigniew Wilczek, and Damian Chmura. "Shaping the Ecotone Zone in Forest Communities That Are Adjacent to Expressway Roads." Forests 12, no. 11 (2021): 1490. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/f12111490.

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As a result of forest fragmentation, ecotones have become an important contribution to the landscape. The areas that include ecotones are constantly growing, thus creating new habitats for plants and animals. The factor that has the greatest impact on the configuration and extent of an ecotone is called the “edge effect”. The aim of this study was to determine the width of the ecotones in forests that are adjacent to an expressway and to characterize the edge effect they produced. The research was performed along ten transects situated at the edge of a forest and in the interior part of a fore

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Kageyama, Stacie A., Nancy Ritchie Posavatz, Kirk E. Waterstripe, et al. "Fungal and bacterial communities across meadow–forest ecotones in the western Cascades of Oregon." Canadian Journal of Forest Research 38, no. 5 (2008): 1053–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/x07-221.

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Meadows are natural dynamic features of forested mountain landscapes of the Pacific Northwest. Proportions of meadows and forests change with environmental conditions and disturbance history. We investigated the belowground microbial communities associated with these two vegetation types and how they change across the meadow–forest transition at two sites in Oregon. Soils were sampled along replicate transects extending from meadow into forest. We quantified total bacterial and fungal biomass using direct microscopy and described the composition of bacterial and fungal communities using a DNA-

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ENGELEN, DRIES, DEBISSA LEMESSA, ÇAĞAN H. ŞEKERCIOĞLU, and KRISTOFFER HYLANDER. "Similar bird communities in homegardens at different distances from Afromontane forests." Bird Conservation International 27, no. 1 (2016): 83–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0959270916000162.

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SummaryHuman modified landscapes make up a growing proportion of the tropics, but are relatively little studied. The spatial distribution of remnant vegetation can structure and shape local biodiversity, affecting the provisioning of ecosystem services and regulation of pest problems. We compared species composition, abundance and functional diversity of birds between forest and homegardens close to (0–100 m) and further away from (1,500–2,000 m) moist evergreen Afromontane forests in south-western Ethiopia. We thoroughly inventoried birds with point counts and mist netting in two forest sites

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Delaval, Marguerite, and P. Charles-dominique. "Edge effects on frugivorous and nectarivorous bat communities in a neotropical primary forest in French Guiana." Revue d'Écologie (La Terre et La Vie) 61, no. 4 (2006): 343–52. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13487134.

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(Uploaded by Plazi for the Bat Literature Project) The impact of a road crossing a continuous Guyana primary forest was studied through the analysis of qualitative and quantitative changes in a frugivorous and nectarivorous bat community at different distances from forest edge. Bats were captured along three 3-km forest transects perpendicular to the edge, and at the Nouragues Station located 150 km in the interior of the primary forest block, in an uninhabited area. Along the 3-km transects, we caught over seven times more individuals than in primary forest, this value decreasing according to

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Delaval, Marguerite, and P. Charles-dominique. "Edge effects on frugivorous and nectarivorous bat communities in a neotropical primary forest in French Guiana." Revue d'Écologie (La Terre et La Vie) 61, no. 4 (2006): 343–52. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13487134.

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(Uploaded by Plazi for the Bat Literature Project) The impact of a road crossing a continuous Guyana primary forest was studied through the analysis of qualitative and quantitative changes in a frugivorous and nectarivorous bat community at different distances from forest edge. Bats were captured along three 3-km forest transects perpendicular to the edge, and at the Nouragues Station located 150 km in the interior of the primary forest block, in an uninhabited area. Along the 3-km transects, we caught over seven times more individuals than in primary forest, this value decreasing according to

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Delaval, Marguerite, and P. Charles-dominique. "Edge effects on frugivorous and nectarivorous bat communities in a neotropical primary forest in French Guiana." Revue d'Écologie (La Terre et La Vie) 61, no. 4 (2006): 343–52. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13487134.

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(Uploaded by Plazi for the Bat Literature Project) The impact of a road crossing a continuous Guyana primary forest was studied through the analysis of qualitative and quantitative changes in a frugivorous and nectarivorous bat community at different distances from forest edge. Bats were captured along three 3-km forest transects perpendicular to the edge, and at the Nouragues Station located 150 km in the interior of the primary forest block, in an uninhabited area. Along the 3-km transects, we caught over seven times more individuals than in primary forest, this value decreasing according to

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Delaval, Marguerite, and P. Charles-dominique. "Edge effects on frugivorous and nectarivorous bat communities in a neotropical primary forest in French Guiana." Revue d'Écologie (La Terre et La Vie) 61, no. 4 (2006): 343–52. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13487134.

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(Uploaded by Plazi for the Bat Literature Project) The impact of a road crossing a continuous Guyana primary forest was studied through the analysis of qualitative and quantitative changes in a frugivorous and nectarivorous bat community at different distances from forest edge. Bats were captured along three 3-km forest transects perpendicular to the edge, and at the Nouragues Station located 150 km in the interior of the primary forest block, in an uninhabited area. Along the 3-km transects, we caught over seven times more individuals than in primary forest, this value decreasing according to

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Cooke, Hilary A., and Lila M. Tauzer. "Unique songbird communities in mature riparian spruce forest compared with upland forest in southern Yukon." Canadian Journal of Forest Research 50, no. 5 (2020): 473–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/cjfr-2018-0381.

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There has been limited study of songbird communities in different habitats of the lowland boreal forests of southern Yukon, including the mature forest valued for timber harvest. Our goal was to describe the songbird community during the breeding season in a mature (≥80 years since wildfire) forest dominated by white spruce (Picea glauca (Moench) Voss) adjacent to streams (n = 23) and wetlands (n = 15) compared with a nearby upland forest. Based on point count surveys, songbird communities were unique in the mature forest in the riparian forest edge position, including greater species richness

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Medeiros, Herison, Wendeson Castro, Cleber Ibraim Salimon, Izaias Brasil da Silva, and Marcos Silveira. "Tree mortality, recruitment and growth in a bamboo dominated forest fragment in southwestern Amazonia, Brazil." Biota Neotropica 13, no. 2 (2013): 29–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/s1676-06032013000200002.

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Forest fragmentation affects the structure and dynamics of plant communities, leading to biodiversity loss in forest remnants. In this paper we show that in a bamboo (Guadua weberbaueri Pilger) dominated forest fragment in southwestern Amazonia edge effect may be confounded by bamboo effect, which also occur inside the forest. We measured growth, mortality and, recruitment rate of trees with DBH ≥ 10 cm, in a fragment of bamboo dominated open forest in southwestern Amazonia, state of Acre, Brazil, in 15 plots at the forest edge and 15 plots inside the forest fragment, 500 m away from the borde

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Lindsey, Barbara Rocha Arakaki, Gabriela Menezes Bochio, and Luiz dos Anjos. "Bird species that occupy river edge in continuous forest tend to be less sensitive to forest fragmentation." Revista Brasileira de Ornitologia 27, no. 3 (2019): 172–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/bf03544468.

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AbstractAlong a distance gradient from a given river, two types of habitat can be recognized: natural river edge and forest interior, each one with its own vegetation characteristics and dynamics. In a continuous area of the Brazilian Atlantic Forest, we investigated (1) if bird communities are different between a riverbank of a small stream and an inland forest habitat; (2) if the species of the river edge habitat are the ones that persist in the most in forest fragments after deforestation of a continuous forest; (3) if the river edge habitat species are those that are less sensitive to fore

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Chetry, Vivek, Prasanta Kumar Saikia, Kuladip Sarma, and Malabika Kakati Saikia. "Avian assemblages pattern along forest-tea plantation gradients in the north bank landscape of Eastern Himalaya, Assam, India." Ornis Hungarica 32, no. 2 (2024): 44–59. https://doi.org/10.2478/orhu-2024-0021.

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Abstract The study explores the patterns of avian communities along forest-tea plantation gradients in the north bank landscape of Eastern Himalayas, India, focusing on the Udalguri district of Assam. The present study aims to identify the impact of transitioning from undisturbed forest to tea plantations on bird diversity and composition. Bird surveys were conducted from August 2022 to June 2023 using point count methods at 16 sampling stations. The results revealed that forests exhibited higher species diversity and functional richness than tea plantations, which showed higher functional eve

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Darling, A. F., L. Leston, and E. M. Bayne. "Small-mammal abundance differs between pipelines, edges, and interior boreal forest habitat." Canadian Journal of Zoology 97, no. 10 (2019): 880–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/cjz-2018-0314.

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Oil and gas development alters boreal forests by creating early-successional habitat and an increased amount of edge. We evaluated which small-mammal species used pipeline rights of way, the influence of vegetation recovery on pipelines, and edge effects in the adjacent forest. Meadow voles (Microtus pennsylvanicus (Ord, 1815)) were the most common species on pipelines, whereas adjacent forest was dominated by southern red-backed voles (Myodes gapperi (Vigors, 1830)), northern red-backed voles (Myodes rutilus (Pallas, 1779)), and North American deer mice (Peromyscus maniculatus (Wagner, 1845))

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Herlambang, Toni, Noor Salim, and Oktarina Oktarina. "The Perspective of Food Sustainability and Security for Forest Edge Community through Increasing Coffee Competitiveness for Income Sustainability." Budapest International Research and Critics Institute (BIRCI-Journal) : Humanities and Social Sciences 1, no. 3 (2018): 272–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.33258/birci.v1i3.50.

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The consumption of rice on the edge of the forest tends to increase unbalanced with production causing food insecurity. Efforts to strengthen the food security of forest-edge communities can be through diversification of non-rice food (corn, sweet potato, banana, cassava and arrowroot) and increased income of smallholder coffee farmers. The objectives of the research are to obtain a model of increasing the competitiveness of the people's coffee to strengthen the resilience and security of forest-edge communities. Research location in Bondowoso District.. The results of the research show that:

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Friesen, Lyle. "Impacts of urbanization on plant and bird communities in forest ecosystems." Forestry Chronicle 74, no. 6 (1998): 855–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.5558/tfc74855-6.

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Development is now a major cause of landscape-scale variation in ecosystems and it is imperative to know more precisely the nature of its impacts if we wish to preserve affected species and their habitats. Recent studies suggest that human impacts in suburban forests are "edge effects" analogous to microclimatic and vegetational edge zone phenomena although they exceed natural edge effects both in severity and spatial extent of damage. Studies of forest bird communities in California and Ontario indicate that some species are urban avoiders that decline or disappear as development levels incre

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Raut, Sweccha, Krishna Dev Hengaju, Narendra Man Babu Pradhan, and Ramesh Prasad Sapkota. "Spatiotemporal variation in human-wildlife interactions: Evidence from forest edges of Khata Corridor, Bardia, western Nepal." Nepalese Journal of Zoology 8, no. 2 (2024): 40–47. https://doi.org/10.3126/njz.v8i2.74930.

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Extensive modification of natural forest habitat for economic and social requirements can put humans and animals in a juxtaposition, encouraging them to vie for the common resources, resulting in conflicts. Very little is known about the wildlife response in different categories of forest edges. We analyzed the relation between the different types of forest edges, viz. agriculture, grassland, river, human trail, and the type of negative human-wildlife interaction (NHWI) inflicted at the Khata Corridor of Bardia District, western Nepal. We collected the GPS position of NHWI incidents, conflicti

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Oliveira, Diogo Gallo, Ana Paula do Nascimento Prata, Leandro Sousa Souto, and Robério Anastácio Ferreira. "Does the edge effect influence plant community structure in a tropical dry forest?" Revista Árvore 37, no. 2 (2013): 311–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/s0100-67622013000200012.

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Edge effects are considered a key factor in regulating the structure of plant communities in different ecosystems. However, regardless to few studies, edge influence does not seem to be decisive in semiarid regions such as the Brazilian tropical dry forest known as Caatinga but this issue remains inconclusive. The present study tests the null hypothesis that the plant community of shrubs and trees does not change in its structure due to edge effects. Twenty-four plots (20 x 20 m) were set up in a fragment of Caatinga, in which 12 plots were in the forest edges and 12 plots were inside the frag

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Ding, Junnan, and Shaopeng Yu. "Structural and Functional Characteristics of Soil Microbial Communities in Forest–Wetland Ecotones: A Case Study of the Lesser Khingan Mountains." Life 15, no. 4 (2025): 570. https://doi.org/10.3390/life15040570.

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Soil microorganisms play an essential role in vegetation succession, nutrient cycling, and ecosystem restoration. This study investigates the responses of soil microbial communities to ecological transitions from forest to wetland in the Lesser Khingan Mountains, including mixed forest, conifer forest, wetland edge, and natural wetland. The results indicated that natural wetland soils were weakly acidic and contained significantly higher organic matter, total nitrogen, and available phosphorus compared to other soils. Soil bulk density increased with depth. Actinobacteria, Acidobacteriota, and

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Fort, Thomas, Cécile Robin, Xavier Capdevielle, Laurent Delière, and Corinne Vacher. "Foliar fungal communities strongly differ between habitat patches in a landscape mosaic." PeerJ 4 (November 3, 2016): e2656. http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2656.

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BackgroundDispersal events between habitat patches in a landscape mosaic can structure ecological communities and influence the functioning of agrosystems. Here we investigated whether short-distance dispersal events between vineyard and forest patches shape foliar fungal communities. We hypothesized that these communities homogenize between habitats over the course of the growing season, particularly along habitat edges, because of aerial dispersal of spores.MethodsWe monitored the richness and composition of foliar and airborne fungal communities over the season, along transects perpendicula

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Grindal, Scott D., and R. Mark Brigham. "Impacts of forest harvesting on habitat use by foraging insectivorous bats at different spatial scales." Écoscience 6, no. 1 (1999): 25–34. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14819248.

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(Uploaded by Plazi for the Bat Literature Project) To assess habitat use by foraging bats in southern British Columbia, Canada, we used narrow band bat detectors and estimated insect availability with light-suction traps. We measured bat activity and insect availability in harvested forests at three spatial scales: habitat type (existing cutblocks, cutblock/forest edges, and undisturbed forest), stand ageclass (four classes ranging between 80 and 250 years), and elevational zone (three zones ranging between 540 and 1800 m). In cutblock and edge habitat types, foraging activity paralleled insec

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Ciosek, Marek Tadeusz, Janusz Krechowski, and Katarzyna Piórek. "Globe flower Trollius europaeus L. in forest and forest edge communities of the northern part of Południowopodlaska Lowland." Forest Resaerch Papers 74 (3) (September 1, 2013): 233–43. https://doi.org/10.2478/frp-2013-0023.

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The distribution of <em>Trollius europaeus </em>in the northern part of the Południowopodlaska Lowland was described and a phytosociological study made of the localities where it was present between 2010 and 2012. The condition of all sites where <em>T. europaeus</em> was historically present was also verified. These field studies reveal that the number of sites of occurrence and the abundance of <em>T. europaeus</em> populations have rapidly diminished over recent years. Only 15 populations of the species in the vicinity of 7 sites were confirmed. <em>Trollius europaeus </em>is usually consid

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Aragón, Gregorio, Laura Abuja, Rocío Belinchón, and Isabel Martínez. "Edge type determines the intensity of forest edge effect on epiphytic communities." European Journal of Forest Research 134, no. 3 (2015): 443–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10342-015-0863-5.

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Mason, Samuel D., Samuel C. R. Sherratt, Samantha M. Kruguer, et al. "Multi-scale analysis of habitat fragmentation on small-mammal abundance and tick-borne pathogen infection prevalence in Essex County, MA." PLOS ONE 17, no. 6 (2022): e0269768. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0269768.

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Habitat fragmentation and heterogeneity transform otherwise contiguous tracks of forest into smaller patches in the northeastern U.S. and likely impact abundances, movement patterns, and disease transmission pathways for small-mammal communities at multiple scales. We sought to determine the structure of a small-mammal community in terms of mammal abundance and infection prevalence of Borrelia burgdorferi sensu stricto (s.s.), Anaplasma phagocytophilum, and Babesia microti within a fragmented landscape in Essex County, Massachusetts, USA. We studied communities at multiple spatial scales, incl

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Melo Júnior, João Carlos Ferreira, Allison Leandro Tietz, Andressa Cruz, et al. "Structural Differences in Herbaceous Communities on Edge and Interior Atlantic Forest in South Brazil." Revista Brasileira de Geografia Física 16, no. 6 (2023): 3006–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.26848/rbgf.v16.6.p3006-3019.

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The Atlantic Forest is recognized worldwide as hotspots due to its megadiversity. This study aimed to evaluate whether there are differences between the floristic and structural diversity of the herbaceous component in an edge and interior region of the southern Brazilian Atlantic Forest. The study was developed in a forest fragment located in the state of Santa Catarina, south Brazil. The edge of the fragment is characterized by an area up to 10-15m wide, covered massively by herbaceous-subshrub vegetation and rare arboreal individuals. The interior is discontinuously shaded by the arboreal a

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Rąkowski, Grzegorz, and Krzysztof Czarnocki. "Breeding avifauna of the forest interior and forest edge in the Borki Forest." Forest Research Papers 80, no. 1 (2019): 23–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/frp-2019-0003.

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Abstract The composition and structure of breeding bird communities in the Borki Forest in North-Eastern Poland were investigated separately in the forest interior (years 2012–2014) and at the forest edge (years 2016–2018). In both areas, bird censuses were carried out on three plots located in mature oak-hornbeam, ash-alder and mixed coniferous forest stands. Plots were selected to cover similar forest types, encompass stands of similar age and to have similar acreage, both, in the forest interior and at the forest edge. A standard combined mapping technique for estimating the number of breed

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Grzegorz, Rąkowski, and Czarnocki Krzysztof. "Breeding avifauna of the forest interior and forest edge in the Borki Forest." Lesne Prace Badawcze / Forest Research Papers 80, no. 1 (2019): 23–43. https://doi.org/10.2478/frp-2019-0003.

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The composition and structure of breeding bird communities in the Borki Forest in North-Eastern Poland were investigated separately in the forest interior (years 2012–2014) and at the forest edge (years 2016–2018). In both areas, bird censuses were carried out on three plots located in mature oak-hornbeam, ash-alder and mixed coniferous forest stands. Plots were selected to cover similar forest types, encompass stands of similar age and to have similar acreage, both, in the forest interior and at the forest edge. A standard combined mapping technique for estimating the number of br

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Silva, V. L., I. T. Mallmann, V. Graeff, J. L. Schmitt, and K. Mehltreter. "Phytosociological contrast of ferns and lycophytes from forest fragments with different surroundings matrices in southern Brazil." Brazilian Journal of Biology 79, no. 3 (2019): 495–504. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/1519-6984.186077.

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Abstract Forest edges typically exhibit higher luminosity and lower humidity than the forest interior, resulting in an abiotic gradient. However, the degree of abiotic difference can be affected from the type of the matrix, influencing the selection of species. We compared the floristic and phytosociological structure of understory communities of ferns and lycophytes of the edge and interior of three forest sites influenced by different types of surrounding matrices (natural field, Pinus plantation, and cultivation of crops). In the region of Araucaria Forest, in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, twe

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Matheson, J. D., and D. W. Larson. "Influence of cliffs on bird community diversity." Canadian Journal of Zoology 76, no. 2 (1998): 278–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/z97-195.

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Cliffs along the Niagara Escarpment in Ontario, Canada, support a long, narrow presettlement forest that includes three distinct geomorphic and vegetation zones: cliff edge, cliff face, and talus slope. This unique landform provides an opportunity to evaluate differences in bird communities between the escarpment and adjacent forest relative to habitat features. We sampled forest birds 12 times during the summer of 1994 in plots located in plateau forests, on talus slope, at cliff edges, and on cliff faces. Eleven habitat variables considered important to birds were also sampled in the plots.

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Christensen, Darin, Alexandra C. Hartman, and Cyrus Samii. "Citizen monitoring promotes informed and inclusive forest governance in Liberia." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 118, no. 29 (2021): e2015169118. http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2015169118.

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Global forest loss depends on decisions made in the rural, often poor communities living beside the Earth’s remaining forests. Governance problems in these forest-edge communities contribute to rapid deforestation and household vulnerability. In coordination with experimental studies in 5 other countries, we evaluate a program that recruits, trains, and deploys citizens to monitor communal forestland in 60 communities in rural Liberia. The year-long intervention is designed to promote more informed and inclusive resource governance, so that that citizens’ preferences (and not just leaders’ int

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Chauvet, Stéphanie, and Pierre-Michel Forget. "Edge effects on post-dispersal seed removal in a fragmented rain forest in French Guiana." Journal of Tropical Ecology 21, no. 1 (2005): 113–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0266467404001944.

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Forest fragmentation results in the creation of edge habitats, which can be responsible for large modifications in community dynamics (Murcia 1995, Saunders et al. 1991). Plant recruitment along edges is favoured for early successional species but is limited for core forest species (Fox et al. 1997, Williams-Linera 1990). Because the former generally produce large quantities of small seeds while the latter produce fewer large seeds (Hammond & Brown 1995), seed resource availability along the edge is biased in favour of smaller seeds. Such seeds are more likely to attract small rodents than

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Jang, Seol, Chung, Sagong, and Lee. "Avian Reporting Rates in Chugcheongnam Province, South Korea Depend on Distance from Forest Edge, Size of Trees, and Size of Forest Fragments." Forests 10, no. 5 (2019): 364. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/f10050364.

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Forests provide bird communities with various resources, including food and habitats. Thus, forest attributes, such as size, structure, and species composition, influence the distribution and dynamics of bird species. This study was conducted to examine the association between forest condition, bird species abundance, and diversity within Chungcheongnam Province, South Korea. Zero-inflated binomial regression models were used to analyze a total of 1646 sampling points of abundance and diversity. Forest area, distance to forest edge, and tree size class were selected as covariates. Negative ass

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Sallabanks, Rex, Jeffrey R. Walters, and Jaime A. Collazo. "Breeding Bird Abundance in Bottomland Hardwood Forests: Habitat, Edge, and Patch Size Effects." Condor 102, no. 4 (2000): 748–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/condor/102.4.748.

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AbstractWe studied breeding bird communities in extensive bottomland hardwood forests along the lower Roanoke River in North Carolina during 1992 and 1993. We documented a rich avian community and recorded exceptionally high densities of two species (Prothonotary Warbler Protonotaria citrea, Acadian Flycatcher Empidonax virescens), as well as modest densities of three species rarely encountered elsewhere in the region (Cerulean Warbler Dendroica cerulea, Swainson's Warbler Limnothlypis swainsonii, American Redstart Setophaga ruticilla). The effects of patch size and edge on bird abundance were

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Borges, Paulo, Lucas Lamelas-López, Noelline Tsafack, et al. "SLAM Project - Long Term Ecological Study of the Impacts of Climate Change in the Natural Forest of Azores: III - Testing the impact of edge effects in a native forest of Terceira Island." Biodiversity Data Journal 10 (June 16, 2022): e85971. https://doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.10.e85971.

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The data we present are part of the long-term project "SLAM Project - Long Term Ecological Study of the Impacts of Climate Change in the Natural Forest of Azores" that started in 2012, aiming to understand the impact of biodiversity erosion drivers on Azorean native forests (Azores, Macaronesia, Portugal). The data for the current study consist in an inventory of arthropods collected in three locations of a native forest fragment at Terra-Brava protected area (Terceira, Azores, Portugal) aiming to test the impact of edge effects on Azorean arthropod communities. The three locations were: (i) t

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Stašiov, Slavomír, Vladimír Kubovčík, Marek Čiliak, et al. "Heterogeneity in millipede communities (Diplopoda) within a forest–forest edge–meadow habitat complex." Acta Oecologica 98 (July 2019): 6–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.actao.2019.05.002.

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Thurmond, Dagmar P., Karl V. Miller, and Thomas G. Harris. "Effect of Streamside Management Zone Width on Avifauna Communities." Southern Journal of Applied Forestry 19, no. 4 (1995): 166–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/sjaf/19.4.166.

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Abstract We analyzed 2 yr of bird population data in streamside management zones (SMZs) of three widths (50 ft, 100 ft, and 164 ft), adjoining ≤5 yr old pine plantations, and mature riparian areas in the Georgia Upper Coastal Plain. We evaluated relationships between SMZ width and bird abundance and density. Breeding and wintering avifaunal abundance were greater in SMZs than in the surrounding pine plantation. Breeding forest interior birds and forest interior neotropical migrant species were abundant in the mature forest control, but were essentially absent in SMZs and pine plantations. Howe

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McWilliam, Wendy, Paul Eagles, Mark Seasons, and Robert Brown. "Assessing the Degradation Effects of Local Residents on Urban Forests in Ontario, Canada." Arboriculture & Urban Forestry 36, no. 6 (2010): 253–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.48044/jauf.2010.033.

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Urban forests provide essential social, ecological, and economic functions in support of their communities; however, surveys indicate adjacent residents conduct activities within their yards and the adjacent public forest edge that degrade these systems. Local governments rely on boundary-focused passive management and/or active management to limit impacts. Encroachment results from various boundary treatments; however, it is not known whether encroachment represents a substantial source of degradation within Ontario, Canada, municipal forests. To evaluate this, percentage cover of encroachmen

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Chaianunporn, Kanokporn, and Thotsapol Chaianunporn. "Effects of Habitat Types on Butterfly Communities (Lepidoptera, Papilionoidea) in Chulabhorn Dam, Chaiyaphum Province, Thailand." Tropical Natural History 19, no. 2 (2019): 70–87. https://doi.org/10.58837/tnh.19.2.189456.

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Deforestation and conversion from forests to other land uses, such as agricultural plantations, recreation parks or urban areas, have a great impact on butterfly diversity. In this study, we compared butterfly communities across five habitat types, i.e., open area, park, dry evergreen forest, forest edge and mixed forest in Chulabhorn Dam, Chaiyaphum Province, Thailand to examine the effects of land-use change on butterfly diversity and to determine which environmental factors were associated with butterfly diversity and distribution. Rarefaction analyses showed that open area had the highest

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Šapić, Irena, Joso Vukelić, Antun Alegro, et al. "Silver Lime (Tilia tomentosa Moench) in Forest Vegetation at the Western Edge of the Natural Distribution." Forests 16, no. 3 (2025): 438. https://doi.org/10.3390/f16030438.

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Silver lime is a thermophilic, calciphile species that thrives in xero-mesophilic forest communities. The westernmost edge of its natural distribution is Zrinska Gora Mountain in central Croatia, where it is found in almost all types of forest vegetation, albeit with varying frequencies. Its ecological optimum is in specific ravines and grooves, where it forms the mesophilic, relict broad-leaved ravine forest community Polysticho setiferi-Tilietum tomentosae. This research was conducted on two levels. Firstly, the communities of Zrinska Gora were analyzed as the westernmost edge of the natural

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Govaert, Sanne, Camille Meeussen, Thomas Vanneste, et al. "Edge influence on understorey plant communities depends on forest management." Journal of Vegetation Science 31, no. 2 (2020): 281–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jvs.12844.

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Silva, Mércia P. P., and Kátia C. Pôrto. "Bryophyte communities along horizontal and vertical gradients in a human-modified Atlantic Forest remnant." Botany 91, no. 3 (2013): 155–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/cjb-2012-0194.

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We compared the richness, diversity, and composition of epiphytic bryophytes in a Brazilian Atlantic Forest remnant along zones of height within host trees (vertical gradient) and edge to interior (horizontal gradient). We established five classes of edge distance, and within each one, three host trees were selected (15 in total). Samples were collected in five height zones within host trees from the base to the top. The highest average values of richness and diversity were found in the trunk zone. There was no significant difference of bryophyte total richness and diversity along edge distanc

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Ferreira, Leandro V., Selvino Neckel-Oliveira, Ulisses Galatti, Sarita B. Fáveri, and Pia Parolin. "Forest structure of artificial islands in the Tucuruí dam reservoir in northern Brazil: a test core-area model." Acta Amazonica 42, no. 2 (2012): 221–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/s0044-59672012000200006.

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Construction of hydroelectric dams in tropical regions has been contributing significantly to forest fragmentation. Alterations at edges of forest fragments impact plant communities that suffer increases in tree damage and dead, and decreases in seedling recruitment. This study aimed to test the core-area model in a fragmented landscape caused by construction of a hydroelectric power plant in the Brazilian Amazon. We studied variations in forest structure between the margin and interiors of 17 islands of 8-100 hectares in the Tucuruí dam reservoir, in two plots (30 and >100m from the margin

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Morris, Adam D., Darren A. Miller, and Matina C. Kalcounis‐Rueppell. "Use of Forest Edges by Bats in a Managed Pine Forest Landscape." Journal of Wildlife Management 74, no. 1 (2010): 26–34. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13439788.

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(Uploaded by Plazi for the Bat Literature Project) Forest edges often have increased species richness and abundance (edge effect) and affect spatial behaviors of species and dynamics of species interactions. Landscapes of intensively managed pine (Pinus spp.) stands are characterized by a mosaic of patches and linear forest edges. Managed pine forests are a primary landscape feature of the southeastern United States, but the effects of intensive management on bat communities are poorly understood. Insectivorous bats are important top predators in nocturnal forest food webs. We examined bat for

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Morris, Adam D., Darren A. Miller, and Matina C. Kalcounis‐Rueppell. "Use of Forest Edges by Bats in a Managed Pine Forest Landscape." Journal of Wildlife Management 74, no. 1 (2010): 26–34. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13439788.

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(Uploaded by Plazi for the Bat Literature Project) Forest edges often have increased species richness and abundance (edge effect) and affect spatial behaviors of species and dynamics of species interactions. Landscapes of intensively managed pine (Pinus spp.) stands are characterized by a mosaic of patches and linear forest edges. Managed pine forests are a primary landscape feature of the southeastern United States, but the effects of intensive management on bat communities are poorly understood. Insectivorous bats are important top predators in nocturnal forest food webs. We examined bat for

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Morris, Adam D., Darren A. Miller, and Matina C. Kalcounis‐Rueppell. "Use of Forest Edges by Bats in a Managed Pine Forest Landscape." Journal of Wildlife Management 74, no. 1 (2010): 26–34. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13439788.

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(Uploaded by Plazi for the Bat Literature Project) Forest edges often have increased species richness and abundance (edge effect) and affect spatial behaviors of species and dynamics of species interactions. Landscapes of intensively managed pine (Pinus spp.) stands are characterized by a mosaic of patches and linear forest edges. Managed pine forests are a primary landscape feature of the southeastern United States, but the effects of intensive management on bat communities are poorly understood. Insectivorous bats are important top predators in nocturnal forest food webs. We examined bat for

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