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habitat fragmentation
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Habitat fragmentation
Habitat fragmentation
describes the emergence of discontinuities (fragmentation) in an organism's preferred
environment
(
habitat
), causing
population fragmentation
and
ecosystem decay
. Habitat fragmentation can be caused by
geological
processes that slowly alter the layout of the physical environment (suspected of being
one of the major causes
of
speciation
), or by human activity such as
land conversion
, which can alter the environment much faster and causes
extinctions
of many species.
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