Fragmentation

* school def ecology
[2025-10-29 Wed]
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1. Habitat Loss

  • Species can lose habitats by
  • Deforestation/human infrastructure
  • Pollution
  • Forest fires
  • Climate change
  • Natural disasters
  • Invasive Species
  • Fragmentation

2. Fragmentation

  • Fragmentation is when we split apart certain ecosystems. This damages local wildlife because larger animals require space and are no longer able to live there anymore
  • Human infrastrcture causes a disturbance in an ecosystem
  • Fragmentation makes edge habitat and species increase, while the interior habitat and species decreases
  • The edge habitat is the outside of the interior habitat and species decreases.

3. Elsewhere

3.1. References

3.2. In my garden

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