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Ecologists understand the world as a seamless fabric in space and time and are fond of saying that everything is connected to everything else. They also know, however, that said fabric is not homogeneous nor necessarily changing only gradually. Discontinuities are rampant, and so we have “things” defined by those discontinuities or boundaries. Habitat edges are one such type of discontinuity. These edges are critical features in the life of organisms and are essential components to our understanding of how they respond to habitat heterogeneity (Lidicker and Koenig 1996). Although edges have always been important in the functioning of the biosphere, their prevalence is accelerating in a world increasingly dominated by anthropogenic influences.
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Lidicker, W.Z., Peterson, J.A. (1999). Responses of Small Mammals to Habitat Edges. In: Barrett, G.W., Peles, J.D. (eds) Landscape Ecology of Small Mammals. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-21622-5_10
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