VIMS’ Habitat Suitability Index and maps—like these for Bay anchovy—reveal seasonal changes in the areas within Chesapeake Bay that provide suitable conditions for forage species.

“Species with higher fragmentation had smaller ranges and a lower proportion of high suitability habitat within their range, and most high-suitability habitat occurred outside of protected areas ...

A new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), set out to quantify habitat fragmentation and extinction risk for more than 4,000 land-dwelling mammal species.

Enrique Martínez-Meyer, Alejandro González-Bernal, Julián A. Velasco, Tyson L. Swetnam, Zaira Y. González-Saucedo, Jorge Servín, Carlos A. López-González, John K. Oakleaf, Stewart Liley, James R.