Habitat fragmentation

in areas such as alluvial fans. They eat fresh fruit and vegetables. One reason the Columbia Basin Pygmy Rabbit is endangered is because it is mistaken for a cotton tail or other lagomorphs when it is hunting season. A second reason is because of habitat loss and fires becoming more frequent due to the increase of invasive cheat grass. A third reason is because of conservation to crop land and…

Early Intensive Stocking management practices pose a serious threat to biodiversity in the Flint Hills Tallgrass Prairie region. Annual spring burning coupled with intensive cattle stocking following the fire. This practice has been estimated to be roughly twice the stocking rate as the area can provide. In which ungulates are grazed for 90-120 days into late summer or early fall (Robbins, et al 239 ). The combination of fire and intense grazing has been demonstrated to have negative impacts on…

threatened. Alistair Mezlar, part of the Koala Research Center of Central Queensland, announces that to this date there are about 45,000-80,000 koalas left in the world (Melzer et al. 621). These marsupials are most frequently found in forested habitats and woodlands of eastern and southeast Australia (620). The writer of this article on climate change in the book Wildlife Heroes, Kassie Siegel, who has been studying climate change for fifteen years at the University of California, Berkeley,…

Habitat fragmentation has become an increasing issue. Island biogeography has helped with understanding what fragmentation can do and has helped with developments in several areas such as landscape ecology in North America (Wu and Vankat 1995). However, Kent (2007) explains the relationship between landscape ecology…

Massachusetts, and Wyoming are closely monitoring populations. Many of these populations are on public lands and are being maintained through each states Wildlife department (Czech, 2017). Some threats that have been listed are shifting habitat and pollution. Habitat shifting due to climate change and serve weather are of concern to the pygmy shrew (ANHP, 2017). South Dakota (an S2 ranked state), grassland destruction are under major concern and are directly linked to the survival of the pygmy…

intensity of fires), which have all been puzzle pieces that we needed in order to figure this out. This has also resulted in the degrading of many of their habitats. These animals have faced so much terror, that they no longer support wildlife. One of the major reasons as to why animals are losing their homes, is the Destruction of their Habitats. When a bulldozer cuts down a tree, this is what we would all agree upon that this action is the Destruction of their homes, but this is not all of…

other, fragmentation. Next, people have been taking nature from the pandas selfishly (Smithsonian). To save this species many people are now working together to stop Giant Pandas from going extinct (WWF). There are sanctuaries and people have been using different techniques without using the pandas’ habitat. The majestic species of the Giant Pandas are endangered for many reasons, all of which we can end to. Giant Pandas have many characteristics…

ecosystems in a negative way. This can be referred to as forest fragmentation. Forest fragmentation negatively affects the forests connectivity and function. Fragmentation caused by mine reclamation is said to be “two-sided because both the effect that natural habitat has on the restored area, and the effect the restored area has on natural habitat.” (Craig et al. 2015) It is known “edge effects increase with increasing contrast between habitats forming the edge with differences in vegetation…

The Tuckahoe River system is devoid of the Dwarf Wedge Mussel, an analysis of previous and current environmental conditions will be used to determine if conditions will support the Dwarf Wedge Mussel habitat. What regulations or measures could be taken in the Tuckahoe system to create an environment in which the Dwarf Wedge Mussel could potentially be introduced and protected? The Dwarf Wedge Mussel is a small freshwater mussel once found in locations from North Caroline to New Brunswick with…

environment occur. Examples of this regulation may be temperature cycles or the length of time photosynthesis will occur. Unpredictable changes are erratic shifts in the environment, such as climate change. These sharp fluctuations can cause fragmentation of…