{"id":10563,"date":"2021-03-01T09:06:40","date_gmt":"2021-03-01T14:06:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/?p=10563"},"modified":"2026-02-23T15:51:47","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T20:51:47","slug":"carletons-highly-cited-researchers-lenore-fahrigs-habitat-fragmentation-research-updates-understanding-of-biodiversity-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/2021\/carletons-highly-cited-researchers-lenore-fahrigs-habitat-fragmentation-research-updates-understanding-of-biodiversity-loss\/","title":{"rendered":"Carleton\u2019s Highly Cited Researchers: Lenore Fahrig\u2019s Habitat Fragmentation Research Updates Understanding of Biodiversity Loss"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Carleton\u2019s Highly Cited Researchers: Lenore Fahrig\u2019s Habitat Fragmentation Research Updates Understanding of Biodiversity Loss\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fahriglab\/about\/\">Lenore Fahrig<\/a>, Chancellor\u2019s Professor in the Department of Biology is one of the most cited researchers in the field of ecology. Her 2003&nbsp;<em>Effects of Habitat Fragmentation on Biodiversity<\/em>&nbsp;paper is the most cited paper on habitat fragmentation in the world, with over 7500 citations noted on&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/scholar.google.com\/citations?user=Htef610AAAAJ&amp;hl=en\">Google Scholar<\/a>&nbsp;at the time of writing. It\u2019s no wonder then that she made the Web of Science Group\u2019s list of top one per cent&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/recognition.webofscience.com\/awards\/highly-cited\/2020\/\">Highly Cited Researchers<\/a>&nbsp;by citations over the past decade.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/research.carleton.ca\/story\/carletons-highly-cited-researchers-lenore-fahrigs-habitat-fragmentation-research-updates-understanding-of-biodiversity-loss\/?utm_source=Homepage&amp;utm_medium=Banner\">more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lenore Fahrig, Chancellor\u2019s Professor in the Department of Biology is one of the most cited researchers in the field of ecology. Her 2003&nbsp;Effects of Habitat Fragmentation on Biodiversity&nbsp;paper is the most cited paper on habitat fragmentation in the world, with over 7500 citations noted on&nbsp;Google Scholar&nbsp;at the time of writing. It\u2019s no wonder then that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10564,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10563"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10563\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10565,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10563\/revisions\/10565"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}