image: One native species observed on the reservoir archipelago was the moonrat (Echinosorex gymnura). However, the moonrat was one of only a handful of native small mammals the researchers found at their study site, where 25 to 26 years of fragmentation had taken its toll on species diversity. This image relates to a paper that appeared in the 27 September, 2013, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by Luke Gibson at National University of Singapore in Singapore, and colleagues was titled, "Near-Complete Extinction of Native Small Mammal Fauna 25 Years After Forest Fragmentation." view more
Credit: [Image courtesy of Luke Gibson]