Support for the habitat amount hypothesis from a global synthesis of species density studies

• Main Authors: Watling, James I., Arroyo-Rodríguez, Victor, Pfeifer, Marion, Baeten, Lander, Banks-Leite, Cristina, Cisneros, Laura M., Fang, Rebecca, Hamel-Leigue, A. Caroli, Lachat, Thibault, Leal, Inara R., Lens, Luc, Possingham, Hugh P., Raheem, Dinarzarde C., Ribeiro, Danilo B., Slade, Eleanor M., Urbina-Cardona, J. Nicolas, Wood, Eric M., Fahrig, Lenore
• Other Authors: Asian School of the Environment
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2021
• Subjects: Science::Biological sciences::Ecology; Forest Loss; Patch Size
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/145970
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Decades of research suggest that species richness depends on spatial characteristics of habitat patches, especially their size and isolation. In contrast, the habitat amount hypothesis predicts that (1) species richness in plots of fixed size (species density) is more strongly and positively related...