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Default Habitat loss worse for wind-dispersed trees

environmentalresearchweb.org - June 06, 2008

Habitat loss is the leading cause of global biodiversity decline so it’s important to know how different species respond. Generally its effects have been examined for animal species over small areas and short timescales. Now a large-scale study of deforestation in Spain over several centuries has found that trees with wind-dispersed seedlings tend to suffer more from habitat loss than those which rely on animals to disperse their seeds...

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