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This website gives information such as how bio-diversty will be affected, the geometric factors and more

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Habitat fragmentation - The Encyclopedia of Earth

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Considerable research has been conducted on species impacts to vertebrates, being macroscopically observable in the landscape, and on flora, since they are somewhat stationary whilst being analyzed. Notably there is a lack of data on arthropods, which comprise most of the extant biomass of our planet.

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This website gives an abstract and some key concepts on fragmentation

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connectivity; context‐dependence; edge effects; habitat area; habitat fragmentation; habitat loss; isolation; landscape structure; matrix contrast; patch shape

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Ecological Consequences of Habitat Fragmentation

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Habitat fragmentation is the process by which habitat loss results in the division of large, continuous habitats into smaller, more isolated remnants

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Habitat Fragmentation: Effects, Definition & Causes

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Habitat Fragmentation: Effects, Definition & Causes

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What is Habitat Fragmentation

Imagine that one day you are driving to work, and suddenly there is a new wall in the road blocking you from going any further. You know what is on the other side - your office, the grocery store, your friends and family. However, you are now completely disconnected from these important resources, and going about your life normally doesn't really seem like an option any longer.

Though you depend on the road to travel to the places you need to go, that road itself may have cut through a habitat that was once contiguous. Animals that live in these habitats are now in the same situation that you were when your road was blocked because their habitat has become fragmented. Fragmented habitats are habitats that were once contiguous but are now separated into smaller, isolated areas.

Causes of Fragmentation

Habitat fragmentation usually occurs because of human activities such as new roads, parking lots and housing developments. Organisms need their specific habitat for survival, and fragmentation is a leading threat to many terrestrial animals. Not only are these animals separated from the resources they depend on, but they now have to travel across dangerous areas, such as roads, to reach those resources.

Habitat fragmentation from human activities is not limited to urban areas. Logging is a major cause of habitat fragmentation in forests. Logging creates clear-cut, open ground areas that were once protected by the cover of trees. Logging roads that are built for the logging trucks to travel on can also be cut through forests, disrupting the habitat.

Habitats may also become fragmented by natural processes. Rivers serve as natural pathways for both terrestrial and aquatic animals. If the river floods, it may make passage across it by terrestrial animals impossible. On the other hand, aquatic animals that depend on the river to move between two different water bodies will not be able to travel from one place to another if the river dries up.

Effects of Fragmentation

Fragmented habitats may be subject to the edge effect. The edges of habitats are important parts of the landscape and are so unique that they have their own sets of physical conditions and communities of organisms. When habitats become fragmented, their edges often become more abrupt and transition less smoothly than they would naturally.

Edges usually have less diversity and are dominated by a small number of species specially adapted to those areas. When more edges are created, the species inhabiting edges expand into areas that they wouldn't normally be found. This creates new competition for the species native to the fragmented habitats, and this can have detrimental effects on those original species.

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definition & causes - video & lesson transcript | study.com

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Habitat Fragmentation: Effects, Definition & Causes - Video & Lesson Transcript | Study.com

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Imagine that one day you are driving to work, and suddenly there is a new wall in the road blocking you from going any further. You know what is on the other side - your office, the grocery store, your friends and family.

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A natural home/environment for any organism such as an animal or a plant.

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Ivery-billed woodpecker

European Goshawk

Male mountain lion (puma)

Great Crested Flycatcher

Cerulean Warbler

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Percentage of Habitats Loss in the World

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Percentage of Habitats Loss in the World

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This shows how much we've lost all throughout the world. All the clear areas don't have recorded data for habitats.

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The fragmentation of a habitat is when a habitat that is large gets divided to smaller parts of a habitat. This can create problems with certain species and population sizes since there won't be enough space for all of them. This will also could make species endangered because it'll be limiting a species' habitat.

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Humans build over different ares of land that are home to certain animals. At times they are not completely destroyed but, separated, which can cause changes in the food web in that ecosystem.

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The picture below shows The Great Ape habitat in Africa and how it will look in only 15 years The color shows the density of trees. Green being more dense red being less

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A large are of land with much diversity is split up into smaller more separated areas of land.

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The process or state of breaking or being broken into small or separate parts.

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Fragmentation of A Habitat       Period 2

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Fragmentation of A Habitat       Period 2

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Esteban Murguia

Lacey Luong

Dulce Mendoza