Habitat Loss, Uneven Distribution of Resources and Fragmented Landscapes—A Resource Based Model of the Patch Size Effect
Read full paper at: http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=51329#.VGRx8GfHRK0 Author(s) Paweł Adamski , Adam Marcin Ćmiel , Adam Marcin Ćmiel Affiliation(s) Institute of Nature Conservation, Polish Academy of Sciences, Kraków, Poland . ABSTRACT The problem of habitat fragmentation is recently an important issue in ecological research as well as in the practical approach of nature conservation. According to the most popular approaches, habitats are considered as the homogenous parts of the landscape. Also the metapopulation concept problem of the inert habitat heterogenity is considered quite seldom. These approaches have some weak points resulting from the assumption that the border be...