When we think about good wildlife habitat, we generally picture lands undisturbed by human construction or agriculture. Given that humans use roughly half the planet’s land area for such purposes, Earth’s “good habitat” ain’t what it used to be. But what effect, exactly, has the loss of habitat had on all the species not named Homo sapiens?
How Human Land Use Is Changing The Number Of Species In Ecosystems
Scott K. Johnson, Ars Technica
Wed, 04/01/2015 - 10:00am
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