Advantages
They offer unique habitats with easy access to adjacent communities and therefore can support more plants and animals from these adjacent communities. These species can adapt and increase the areas biodiversity. The easy flow of animals to adjacent areas creates travel lanes along borders. There is an increased availability of light to plants along the borders that promotes primary production. For example, the increased availability of light can allow more plants to be supported, which increases herbivorous insects, and then nesting birds, and nest predators are attracted.
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