Although habitat amount, fragmentation, and connectivity are thought to be important drivers of biodiversity, their independent effects have not been evaluated. We selected 70 forested sites in Ontario, Canada, such that forest amount, fragmentation (number of patches), and structural connectivity (treed corridors) in the surrounding x within multiple spatial extents around 70 sampling sites. All relative abundances were standardized. A: relative abundance (number of papers with presence) of P. leucopus per site. B: the relative abundance of T. striatus per site. C: the relative abundance of M. gapperi per site. D: the relative abundance of B. brevicauda per site. E: the relative abundance of T. hudsonicus per site. Forest amount and number of patches are, respectively, the amount of treed area (m2) and the number of distinct patches of treed area in the landscapes surrounding the sampling sites. Patch connectivity is the percentage of patches in the surrounding landscapes connected to the sampled patch (the "focal patches") through corridors. Points and lines indicate landscape variable coefficients. Grey bars indicate delta AICc's for the models containing the landscape variables at each spatial extent. The scale of effect is taken as the scale where the model fit is best, i.e., delta AICc = 0.
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