Learning Objectives

24.2.1 Describe the impacts of habitat fragmentation that lead to loss of diversity in landscapes.

24.2.2 Evaluate why fragmentation is more likely to impact higher trophic levels relative to plants and herbivores.

24.2.3 Explain how edges between habitat patches and the matrix in a fragmented landscape influence the physical environment and how this in turn impacts ecological processes such as dispersal and habitat use.