Consequences of land transformation
The impacts of physical and biogeographic change on
the landscape are structural modifications to the
size, shape and position in the landscape of individual remnant patches
of habitat, which will have implications for the species and communities
within these patches.
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Consequences for native species
The consequences of land transformation
for native species within remnants vary with:
- time since isolation of remnant
patches
- distance from other remnants
- degree of connectivity with
other remnants (Saunders
et al., 1991)
Since the process of removal
or land clearance is often itself quite disjointed, remnants of native
vegetation can vary considerably across the landscape. They are found
in patches in different locations, on different soil types, each remnant
patch can be made up of different vegetation types, and they can vary
in size, shape, isolation and ownership.
