Scholarly Article Precis 2

In an article written by Miryl Parker and Ralph Mac Nally in the journal Biological Conservation titled Habitat loss and the habitat fragmentation threshold: an experimental evaluation of impacts on richness and total abundances using grassland invertebrates (2002) asserts the importance of limiting habitat fragmentation, due to the negative effects on the fauna in the area. Parker and Mac Nally performed a series of experiments to illustrate the these negative effects on grassland invertebrates with extensive documentation of any and all changes in population densities as well as species richness. Parker and Mac Nally’s purpose in these experiments were to shed some light on what really happens when anthropogenic fragmentation occurs. Their intended audience for this paper must have been aimed toward the biological profession with the use of biological concepts.

Parker, Miryl, Mac Nally, Ralph. “Habitat loss and the habitat fragmentation threshold: an experimental evaluation of impacts on richness and total abundances using grassland invertebrates.” Biological Conservation 105.2 (2002): 217-229. Science Direct. Web. 5 Feb. 2013.

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0006320701001847