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The aim of this study was to test whether demographic, ecological, and life-history traits are associated with vulnerability to landscape fragmentation in European breeding bird species. Landscape fragmentation, however, does not affect all species similarly, suggesting that some species characteristics may render species more sensitive to fragmentation than others. Human land-use transformation has fragmented natural landscapes around the world, with fragmentation currently being considered a global threat to biodiversity conservation.

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