Instruct: Identify the main category of Biorxiv papers based on the titles and abstracts
Query: Spatially non-continuous relationships between biological invasion and fragmentation of mangrove forests Rapid and large-scale biological invasion results in widespread biodiversity loss and degradation of essential ecosystem services, especially in mangrove forests. Recent evidence suggests that the establishment and dispersal of invasive species may exacerbated in fragmented landscape, but the influence of mangrove fragmentation on coastal biological invasion at landscape scale remains largely unknown. Here, using the derived 10-m resolution coastal wetland map in southeast coast of China, we examine the relationships between fragmentation of mangrove forests and salt marsh invasion magnitude and quantify the geographical variations of the relationships across a climatic gradient. Our results show that mangrove forests with small size, large edge proportion, and regular boundary shape tend to suffer more serious salt marsh invasions, indicating a positive correlation between mangrove fragmentation and its invaded magnitude. In particular, such fragmentation-invasion relationships in subtropics are shown to be more intensive than in tropic. Our findings provide the first spatially explicit evidence of the relationships between mangrove fragmentation and biological invasion on a landscape scale, and highlight an urgent need for conservation and management actions to improve mangrove connectivity, which will increase resistance to invasions, especially for small-size subtropical mangrove forests.
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The categories of this paper are: animal
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The categories of this paper are: synthetic
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The categories of this paper are: cancer
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The categories of this paper are: microbiology
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The categories of this paper are: pathology
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The categories of this paper are: biophysics
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The categories of this paper are: education
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The categories of this paper are: immunology
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The categories of this paper are: genetics
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The categories of this paper are: biochemistry
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The categories of this paper are: cell
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The categories of this paper are: communication
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The categories of this paper are: systems
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The categories of this paper are: bioengineering
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The categories of this paper are: genomics
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The categories of this paper are: biology