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Faunal communities are invariant to fragmentation in experimental seagrass landscapes

2016-05-17

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Human-driven habitat fragmentation is cited as one of the most pressing threats facing many coastal ecosystems today. Many experiments have explored the consequences of fragmentation on fauna in one foundational habitat, seagrass beds, but have either surveyed along a gradient of existing patchiness, used artificial materials to mimic a natural bed, or sampled over short timescales. Here, we describe faunal respon...

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DOI: 10.7287/peerj.preprints.1823v2

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