Habitat Fragmentation

{
  "id": "MLC-T-ENV-012770",
  "term": "Habitat Fragmentation",
  "field": "Environment",
  "definition": "1. A process during which larger areas of habitat are broken into a number of smaller patches of smaller total area, isolated from each other by a matrix of habitats unlike the original habitat. (Fahrig 2003 [http://www.fs.usda.gov/r1])\n\n2. The alteration of a large habitat patch to create isolated or tenuously connected patches of the original habitat that are interspersed with an extensive mosaic of other habitat types (Wiens 1989b:201).\n\n3. A process during which larger areas of habitat are broken into a number of smaller patches of smaller total area, isolated from each other by a matrix of habitats unlike the original habitat. (Fahrig 2003)",
  "subject": "Climate change",
  "references": [
    "Glossary of Climate Change Terms",
    "USGS Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center Glossary of Avian Terms For Use in Avian Conservation Biology"
  ],
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/environment/habitat-fragmentation/"
}