Habitat fragmentation is a
serious issue that today our entire world is facing. It is the disintegration
of the environment of the organism into patches due to natural or anthropogenic
activities. These fragmented patches cannot fully accommodate the entire organism
this ultimately support only small population which leads to species extinction.
In the process of fragmentation there forms discontinuity in the spatial
distribution of resources which affects occupancy, reproduction and survival in
a particular species. But this it can also provide new environment for new
species to evolve. Thus earth shows the resiliency on the earth.
1. The most important part which is affected is the
biodiversity that is the ecological niche of the organisms.
2. The organisms in these areas directed to the
patches left which leads to crowding and increased competition.
3. The destruction of the habitat causes climatic
changes due to deforestation.
4. Formation of new species leads to inbreeding.
5. Inbreeding effects causes reduced heterogeneity
and vigor among the organism.
6. Due to these effects species are prone to
disease and predation.
7. This all finally results in species extinction.
So it’s our
responsibility of each and every individual to conserve our nature…
<image courtesy :Photo taken by Priyanka Babu, Ponnmudi, 10.11.2012>
This is the issue what we want to be cocern
ReplyDeletewell done priyanka , nice image
ReplyDeleteit would have been excellent if u inserted the self explanatory flowchart with proper copyrights :-)
ReplyDeletesure i will update
ReplyDeleteand this is a serious issue in because this is happening in ponnmudi...
DeleteNice..... human never think about other organisms while development.....
ReplyDeletefragment is now vast in our region>>>>>>>>>>>>>.good one
ReplyDeleteReally a threat to Biodiversity we must start supporting our nature as hw it does
ReplyDeletevery nice
ReplyDeletea birds eye view of entire habitat fragmentation
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