Chapter 52: ActivitiesActivity 52.2 Habitat Fragmentation |
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In this activity, you’ll examine the results of an experiment conducted in Manaus, Brazil, in which a forest habitat was fragmented into small habitat patches. Fragmentation can produce "edge" habitats, which can have very different climates from the "interior" habitats that existed before fragmentation. In this experiment, biologists monitored changes in plant populations—measured as changes in biomass—after the clearing of forest. They compared the effects of fragmentation by examining the changes that occurred in edge plots as compared with interior plots.
Chapter 52, Section 52.1, How Many Species Are Being Lost, and Why? |