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New metrics indicate habitat fragmentation has increased in over half the world's forests over the last 20 years

Deforestation is a well-known issue affecting biodiversity and carbon storage, but the fragmentation of forests is also a driving factor in the reduction of the world's biodiversity and carbon-storing ...
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Tropical forest fragmentation nearing ‘critical point,’ study finds

In addition to having severe repercussions for animals like jaguars and tigers that require vast tracts of connected habitat, forest fragmentation has a big carbon footprint. A new physics-based study ...