Tag: habitat fragmentation

Maintaining connectivity between habitats is a key strategy for conserving wildlife populations into the future. Yet here in the contiguous U.S., habitat fragmentation and loss threaten the well-being and even...

Rare and elusive wildlife species such as jaguars can be tricky to study in the wild, especially when it comes to genetics. But noninvasive scat sampling has allowed researchers to...

A combination of habitat destruction, deadly diseases and climate change may spell doom for amphibians in many parts of the world, according to new research. “There’s pretty good agreement that...

The negative effect some species feel from habitat fragmentations may have more to do with temperature changes than anything else, according to ongoing studies. In fact, temperature could explain why...

Only one mountain lion has been known to successfully make it across California’s Interstate 15 from the east side to the west since 2001. The sole male animal, known as...

Similar kinds of habitats may be more important than geographic proximity when it comes to finding which birds are of a genetic feather. A new study examining white-breasted nuthatch (Sitta...