Bandages for Wounded Landscapes: Faunal Corridors and Their Role in Wildlife Conservation in the Americas

Abstract

The loss and fragmentation of natural habitats is probably the single greatest threat to the world’s biological diversity. Fragmentation has a variety of effects including the isolation of habitat remnants, a sharp increase in the amount of habitat edge and, often, a disproportionate loss of certain habitat types — such as accessible areas on fertile, well-drained soils that are most productive for agriculture (Laurance et al. 1999).