BIOL 1070 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Standard Deviation, Biotic Component, Acer Saccharum
27 Mar 2016
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Read the provided paper from the primary literature that discusses the effect of habitat edges (edge effects), or forest fragmentation on the ecology or diversity of a species. Briefly summarize the paper, paraphrasing each of the components listed in the assignment. Human activity has caused the tropical oak forest ecosystem in oaxaca mexico to become fragmented and less sustainable. Habitat fragmentation is the process where a relatively large ecosystem is broken up into smaller fragmented, ecosystems that can have a hard time regenerating due to an increase in environmental homogenization. Edge environments are the environments that exist between two distinct habitats. The hypothesis of this research states that with oak forests being able to moisturize soil in average dry ecosystems, that the fragmentation of these oak forests have severely altered the microclimate conditions within them. The predicted outcome of the study was that only a few of the microclimate variables would have a relatively large impact on the surrounding environment.
