News Headline
Invisible plant-enemy interactions drive diversity in forest fragments
Source
Mongabay (India)
Publication Date
2018-11-07
Very few tropical forests around the world enjoy uninterrupted contiguity. Most are divided into uneven, small fragments, cut off from each other, their boundaries marked by roads or farms. But as forests get fragmented, the diversity of plants within them shifts, changing with distance from their ragged edges. What drives these changes? Light, for one.