Area-sensitive species

{
  "id": "MLC-T-ENV-002082",
  "term": "Area-sensitive species",
  "field": "Environment",
  "term_source": "Area-Sensitive Species",
  "definition": "1. Species that respond negatively to decreasing habitat patch size (Finch 1991:20).\n\n2. Wildlife needing large, unfragmented areas in a certain successional stage to provide some or all of their habitat requirements. When habitat is frangmented or shrunken, the animals have difficulty adapting.",
  "subject": "Biological substances",
  "references": [
    "USGS Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center Glossary of Avian Terms For Use in Avian Conservation Biology",
    "USDA and Cooperative State Research Education and Extension Service Forest and Range at http://www.forestandrange.org/"
  ],
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/environment/area-sensitive-species/"
}