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Download Conservation Biology Study Questions: Fragmentation and Its Impact on Communities - Prof. and more Study notes Conservation biology in PDF only on Docsity! Conservation biology study questions: Fragmentation and Commu- nity 1. What are the 3 main effects of habitat fragmentation? 2. Is habitat fragmentation always ”bad”? 3. Explain the difference between habitat shredding and habitat fragmentation. 4. It is important to understand how heterogeneous a habitat was to understand the full impact of fragmentation. Why? 5. How can we quantify the effects of fragmentation? Describe methods and their shortcomings. 6. What is an edge? Describe its physical and biological properties. 7. Discuss the effects of isolation and size of patches on the genetic properties of populations in these patches. 8. Fragmented but intact habitat suffer because they have disturbed habitats as neighbors. Can you give an example and and a possible explanation why that is. 9. What is relaxation? Why does it occur? 10. Who is most vulnerable in a community of species in a fragmented landscape? 1