Edge degradation squeezes wildlife into the ecosystem core

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Veldhuis et al. drew on forty years of data to show that human land use pressing on the boundaries of the 40,000 km² ecosystem has compressed grazers into the protected core. The compression reduced grass fuel and fire, weakened soil carbon and nitrogen retention, and made primary production less responsive to rainfall — a loss of resilience inside the protected area caused entirely from outside it.

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