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The Project is located near Manaus

The Biological Dynamics of Forest Fragments Project (BDFFP; or Projeto Dinâmica Biológica de Fragmentos Florestais, PDBFF, in Portuguese) is a large-scale ecological experiment looking at the effects of habitat fragmentation on tropical rainforest. The experiment which was established in 1979 is located near Manaus in the Brazilian Amazon rainforest. The project is jointly managed by the Amazon Biodiversity Center and the Brazilian Institute for Research in the Amazon (INPA).

The project was initiated in 1979 by Thomas Lovejoy to investigate the SLOSS debate. Initially named the Minimum Critical Size of Ecosystems Project,[1] the project created forest fragments of sizes 1 hectare (2 acres), 10 hectares (25 acres), and 100 hectares (247 acres). Data were collected prior to the creation of the fragments and studies of the effects of fragmentation now exceed 25 years.

As of April 2020, 785 scholarly journal articles and more than 150 graduate dissertations and theses had emerged from the project.[2]

  1. ^ Quammen, p. 454
  2. ^ Laurance, William; José L.C. Camargo; Regina C.C. Luizão; Susan G. Laurance; Stuart L. Pimm; Emilio M. Bruna; Philip C. Stouffer; G. Bruce Williamson; Julieta Benítez-Malvido; Heraldo L. Vasconcelos; Kyle S. Van Houtan; Charles E. Zartman; Sarah A. Boyle; Raphael K. Didham; Ana Andrade; Thomas E. Lovejoy (2011). "The fate of Amazonian forest fragments: A 32-year investigation". Biological Conservation. 144: 56–67. doi:10.1016/j.biocon.2010.09.021.

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