Ecology and Society - Vol. 6, No. 2 (2002)

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Fragmentation: Is the Message Clear?

John A Bissonette, Utah Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit, U.S. Geological Survey
Ilse Storch, Wildlife Research and Management Unit, Technical University of Munich and Max Pl

Abstract
In this paper, we briefly discuss some of the fundamental problems arising from the inherent complexity of larger-scale ecological systems. We examine the tenuous assumption of a direct correspondence between ecological data and theory, we comment on a recent report that evaluated the efficacy of fragmentation experiments, and we briefly assess its implications for ecological research and conservation practice on the landscape scale.

Key words
conservation, experimentation, fragmentation studies, landscape ecology

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