Marvin Eng

This document needs a lot of 'context'. Simply putting on this list without explaining what has happened in the intervening 27 years could be pretty confusing.

It is unclear to me how this article 'contributes' to a discussion of 'destruction of wildlife habitat and biodiversity loss'. This is a 17 year old paper, based on 24 year old data and they didn't find the fragmentation they expected. They conclude that "The failure to detect patterns consistent with old-growth fragmentation in this case presents several possibilities: (1)old-growth fragmentation is not occurring, (2)amounts of harvesting and old-growth are too low to detect a fragmentation pattern, or (3) our measures and tests of fragmentation are inadequate to detect a fragmentation pattern." My guess is that if you went back to look at that landscape now you would find fragmentation - they were looking too early.

It is unclear to me how this article 'contributes' to a discussion of 'destruction of wildlife habitat and biodiversity loss'. This is a 17 year old paper, based on 24 year old data and they didn't find the fragmentation they expected. They conclude that "The failure to detect patterns consistent with old-growth fragmentation in this case presents several possibilities: (1)old-growth fragmentation is not occurring, (2)amounts of harvesting and old-growth are too low to detect a fragmentation pattern, or (3) our measures and tests of fragmentation are inadequate to detect a fragmentation pattern." My guess is that if you went back to look at that landscape now you would find fragmentation - they were looking too early.