Elephants that pass through from one forest patch to another dash against the trains and die.

Denser vegetation marked the upper boundary of the forest patch.

And the researchers found that in smaller forest patches, as many as 80 percent of the ticks were infected.

A review suggests that during winter, smaller forest patches may be used than in the breeding season.

The communities inside the park's perimeters have created open forest patches due to small-scale farming.

To provide more natural habitats some lawns of the Zoo have been converted into small forest patches which are rich in rare plants.

Therefore its populations survived only in forest patches hidden in hardly accessible places.

These forest patches are highly restricted in size and the species is thus threatened by habitat loss.

Both were collected from bushes or trees in an open forest patch.

With the depletion of dead wood from the forest patches, the people have begun to remove young, healthy trees.