Ecology Letters

, volume 23 , issue 4 , pages 674-681

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

James I. Watling ¹

Víctor Arroyo-Rodríguez ²

Marion Pfeifer ³

Lander Baeten ⁴

Cristina Banks Leite ⁵

Laura M. Cisneros ⁶

Rebecca Fang ⁷

A Caroli Hamel Leigue ⁸

Thibault Lachat ^{9, 10}

Inara Roberta Leal ¹¹

Luc Lens ¹²

Hugh P. Possingham ¹³

Dinarzarde C Raheem ¹⁴

Danilo Marcus Santos Ribeiro ¹⁵

Eleanor M. Slade ¹⁶

J Nicolas Urbina Cardona ¹⁷

Eric M. Wood ¹⁸

Lenore Fahrig ¹⁹

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Department of Biology John Carroll University University Heights OH 44118 USA |

Instituto de Investigaciones en Ecosistemas y Sustentabilidad Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México 58190 Morelia Michoacán Mexico |

School of Natural and Environmental Sciences Newcastle University Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 7RU United Kingdom |

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Department of Environment Ghent University Campus Gontrode, Geraardsbergsesteenweg 267 9090 Melle‐Gontrode Belgium |

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Grand Challenges in Ecosystems and Environment Imperial College London Silwood Park Campus Ascot SL5 7PY United Kingdom |

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Department of Natural Resources and Environment University of Connecticut Storrs CT 06249 USA |

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Department of Mathematics and Computer Science John Carroll University University Heights OH 44118 USA |

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Museo de Historia Natural Alcides d'Orbigny Avenida Potosí 1458 Cochabamba Bolivia |

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Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL Zurcherstrasse 11 8903 Birmensdorf Switzerland |

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School of Agricultural, Forest and Food Sciences HAFL Bern University of Applied Sciences Länggasse 85 3052 Zollikofen Switzerland |

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Departamento de Botânica Universidade Federal de Pernambuco 50670‐901 Recife PE Brazil |

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Department of Biology Terrestrial Ecology Unit Ghent University Campus Ledeganck BE‐9000 Ghent Belgium |

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Centre for Excellence for Environmental Decisions University of Queensland St Lucia QLD 4072 Australia |

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Department of Life Sciences Natural History Museum London SW7 5BD United Kingdom |

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Instituto de Biociências Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso de Sul 79070‐900 Campo Grande Brazil |

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Department of Zoology Oxford University Oxford OX1 3PS United Kingdom |

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Facultad de Estudios Ambientales y Rurales Pontificia Universidad Javeriana Bogotá Colombia |

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Department of Biological Sciences California State University Los Angeles Los Angeles CA 90032 USA |

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Department of Biology Carleton University 1125 Colonel By Drive Ottawa ON K1S 5B6 Canada |

Publication type: Journal Article

Publication date: 2020-04-01

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Ecology Letters

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ISSN: 1461023X, 14610248

DOI: 10.1111/ele.13471

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PubMed ID: 32043741

Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

Abstract

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 to the amount of habitat around the plot than to patch size or isolation; (2) habitat amount better predicts species density than patch size and isolation combined, (3) there is no effect of habitat fragmentation per se on species density and (4) patch size and isolation effects do not become stronger with declining habitat amount. Data on eight taxonomic groups from 35 studies around the world support these predictions. Conserving species density requires minimising habitat loss, irrespective of the configuration of the patches in which that habitat is contained.

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Watling J. I. et al. Support for the habitat amount hypothesis from a global synthesis of species density studies // Ecology Letters. 2020. Vol. 23. No. 4. pp. 674-681.

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Watling J. I., Arroyo-Rodríguez V., Pfeifer M., Baeten L., Banks Leite C., Cisneros L. M., Fang R., Hamel Leigue A. C., Lachat T., Leal I. R., Lens L., Possingham H. P., Raheem D. C., Santos Ribeiro D. M., Slade E. M., Urbina Cardona J. N., Wood E. M., Fahrig L. Support for the habitat amount hypothesis from a global synthesis of species density studies // Ecology Letters. 2020. Vol. 23. No. 4. pp. 674-681.

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TY - JOUR

DO - 10.1111/ele.13471

UR - https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.13471

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

T2 - Ecology Letters

AU - Watling, James I.

AU - Arroyo-Rodríguez, Víctor

AU - Pfeifer, Marion

AU - Baeten, Lander

AU - Banks Leite, Cristina

AU - Cisneros, Laura M.

AU - Fang, Rebecca

AU - Hamel Leigue, A Caroli

AU - Lachat, Thibault

AU - Leal, Inara Roberta

AU - Lens, Luc

AU - Possingham, Hugh P.

AU - Raheem, Dinarzarde C

AU - Santos Ribeiro, Danilo Marcus

AU - Slade, Eleanor M.

AU - Urbina Cardona, J Nicolas

AU - Wood, Eric M.

AU - Fahrig, Lenore

PY - 2020

DA - 2020/04/01

PB - Wiley

SP - 674-681

IS - 4

VL - 23

PMID - 32043741

SN - 1461-023X

SN - 1461-0248

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@article{2020_Watling,

author = {James I. Watling and Víctor Arroyo-Rodríguez and Marion Pfeifer and Lander Baeten and Cristina Banks Leite and Laura M. Cisneros and Rebecca Fang and A Caroli Hamel Leigue and Thibault Lachat and Inara Roberta Leal and Luc Lens and Hugh P. Possingham and Dinarzarde C Raheem and Danilo Marcus Santos Ribeiro and Eleanor M. Slade and J Nicolas Urbina Cardona and Eric M. Wood and Lenore Fahrig},

title = {Support for the habitat amount hypothesis from a global synthesis of species density studies},

journal = {Ecology Letters},

year = {2020},

volume = {23},

publisher = {Wiley},

month = {apr},

url = {https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.13471},

number = {4},

pages = {674--681},

doi = {10.1111/ele.13471}

}

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Watling, James I., et al. “Support for the habitat amount hypothesis from a global synthesis of species density studies.” Ecology Letters, vol. 23, no. 4, Apr. 2020, pp. 674-681. https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.13471.

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Wiley

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Ecology Letters

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3.905

CiteScore

13.2

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7.9

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1461023X (Print)

14610248 (Electronic)