Center for Biodiversity and Conservation
http://research.amnh.org/biodiversity/symposia/archives/sprawl/archive/presenterbios/biozipperer.html
Forest fragmentation from urban sprawl is a site-level phenomenon; however, it affects conservation of biodiversity at landscape and regional scales. Impediments to conservation occur when crossing jurisdictional and agency (local, state, and federal) boundaries.
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Forest fragmentation creating genetic bottleneck
http://www.cnn.com/TECH/science/9807/20/forest.genetics.enn/
Scientists have recently discovered that the deforestation of tropical areas may be more devastating than previously thought.
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Green Infrastructure: The Conservation Fund
http://www.greeninfrastructure.net/
Green Infrastructure is our Nation's natural life support system - an interconnected network of protected land and water that supports native species, maintains natural ecological processes, sustains air and water resources and contributes to the health and quality of life for America's communities and people.
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Smart Communities Network - Creating Energy Smart Communities
http://www.sustainable.doe.gov/index.shtml
We're finding that more and more cities, villages, neighborhoods and regions are using sustainable development as a guiding principle not only for near-term projects, but also for planning their futures.As your community makes its development decisions — with all of the attendant impacts on transportation patterns, building efficiency, industrial productivity and so on — you affect national energy security, as well as the nation's economic and environmental health.
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What is Forest Fragmentation and Why is it Important?
http://birds.cornell.edu/bfl/gen_instructions/fragmentation.html
Forest fragmentation occurs when large, continuous forests are divided into smaller blocks, either by roads, clearing for agriculture, urbanization, or other human development. Ornithologists suspect that fragmentation harms many woodland birds by increasing their susceptibility to predation and nest parasitism.
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