Fragmentation affects plant community composition over time
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across ecosystems. In part this deficit is due to the fact that the most frequently used metric in long term datasets, species richness, obscures compositional shifts (Magurran and Henderson 2010, Dornelas et al. 2014). Importantly, changes in community composition can have cascading effects on ecosystem properties (Tabarelli et al. 2012), highlighting a pressing need for a better understanding of how community composition changes over time in response to habitat fragmentation. Generalizing results across fragmentation studies is difficult due to confounding factors such as matrix quality (Driscoll et al. 2013) and historical legacies of fragments and the surrounding landscape (Ewers et al. 2013, Longworth et al. 2014, Mesquita et al. 2015) which may vary among Ecography 40: 119–130, 2017 doi: 10.1111/ecog.02607 © 2016 The Authors. Ecography © 2016 Nordic Society Oikos Subject Editor: Nick Haddad. Editor-in-Chief: Miguel Araújo. Accepted 1 November 2016
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