Erratum to: Habitat fragmentation and biodiversity conservation: key findings and future challenges

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Landscape Ecol DOI 10.1007/s10980-015-0312-3 EDITORIAL Habitat fragmentation and biodiversity conservation: key findings and future challenges Maxwell C. Wilson . Xiao-Yong Chen . Richard T. Corlett . Raphael K. Didham . Ping Ding . Robert D. Holt . Marcel Holyoak . Guang Hu . Alice C. Hughes . Lin Jiang . William F. Laurance . Jiajia Liu . Stuart L. Pimm . Scott K. Robinson . Sabrina E. Russo . Xingfeng Si . David S. Wilcove . Jianguo Wu . Mingjian Yu Received: 5 November 2015 / Accepted: 7 November 2015 Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2015 Habitat loss and fragmentation has long been consid- ered the primary cause for biodiversity loss and ecosystem degradation worldwide, and is a key research topic in landscape ecology (Wu 2013). Habitat fragmentation often refers to the reduction of continuous tracts of habitat to smaller, spatially distinct remnant patches, and habitat loss typically occurs concurrently with habitat fragmentation (Col- linge 2009). Although some habitats are naturally patchy in terms of abiotic and biotic conditions (Wu and Loucks 1995), human actions have profoundly fragmented landscapes across the word (Haddad et al. 2015), altering the quality and connectivity of habitats. Therefore, understanding the causes and conse- quences of habitat fragmentation is critical to preserv- ing biodiversity and ecosystem functioning. From May 4th to 10th, 2015, an International Workshop on Habitat Fragmentation and Biodiversity Conservation, held at the Thousand Island Lake, Zhejiang, China, discussed threats to biodiversity in fragmented landscapes and how fragmentation research can identify and help mitigate these threats. M. C. Wilson J. Wu School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287, USA e-mail: mcwilso2@gmail.com P. Ding (&) J. Liu X. Si M. Yu (&) College of Life Sciences & Institute of Ecology, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, Zhejiang, China e-mail: dingping@zju.edu.cn X.-Y. Chen School of Ecological and Environmental Sciences, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200214, China R. T. Corlett A. C. Hughes Centre for Integrative Conservation, Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanic Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Menglun, Mengla 666303, Yunnan, China R. K. Didham School of Animal Biology, University of Western Australia, Perth, WA 6009, Australia R. K. Didham CSIRO Land and Water, Centre for Environment and Life Sciences, Perth, WA 6014, Australia M. Yu e-mail: fishmj202@hotmail.com R. D. Holt Department of Biology, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA M. Holyoak Department of Environmental Science and Policy, University of California, Davis, CA 95616, USA G. Hu Department of Landscape Architecture, School of Civil Engineering and Architecture, Zhejiang University of Science and Technology, Hangzhou 310018, Zhejiang, China