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Connecting ecology and conservation through experiment

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An experimental infrastructure consisting of environmentally controlled and spatially linked habitat patches permits studies on terrestrial animal dispersal at an unprecedented scale for an experiment with such strict control.

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Figure 1: The relationship between the size of study areas and the degree of experimental control in spatial ecology studies.

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