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Connecting ecology and conservation through experiment

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An experimental infrastructure consisting of environmentally controlled and spatially linked habitat patches permits studies on terrestrial animal dispersal at an unprecedented scale for an experiment with such strict control.

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Figure 1: The relationship between the size of study areas and the degree of experimental control in spatial ecology studies.

Microcosm, N.M. Haddad; Metatron, Q. Benard; SRS Corridor Experiment, E. Damschen

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Haddad, N. Connecting ecology and conservation through experiment. Nat Methods 9, 794–795 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1038/nmeth.2107

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