Atlantic Forest (1 of 3) (IMAGE)

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Atlantic Forest (1 of 3)

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Altered wind conditions and light climate lead to a general change in the microclimate at the forest edges. Big old trees are particularly vulnerable to these factors. With the help of FORMIND, a forest simulation software developed at the UFZ, the researchers modeled different sizes of forest patches left over after landscape fragmentation. The smaller a patch of forest is, the worse is the ratio between edge and area.

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Photo: Henning Steinicke/UFZ

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