Human Effects On Edges
Humans have created borders and fragmentation with development and agriculture. This causes habitat loss restricting species to a certain areas and thus creates lower biodiversity in the ecosystem. A few examples of human impacts are:
- Introduction of invasive exotic vegetation
- Higher severity and frequency of fires
- Companion animals acting as predators and competitors
- Use of and creating trails
- Introduction of exotic animals
- Pollution, erosion
- Loss of foraging habitats
Cooperation between landowners and environmental agencies is needed to maintain habitats and avoid fragmentation and edge effect
Read more about this topic: Edge Effect
Famous quotes containing the words human, effects and/or edges:
“It is human agitation, with all the vulgarity of needs small and great, with its flagrant disgust for the police who repress it, it is the agitation of all men ... that alone determines revolutionary mental forms, in opposition to bourgeois mental forms.”
—Georges Bataille (1897–1962)
“Whereas Freud was for the most part concerned with the morbid effects of unconscious repression, Jung was more interested in the manifestations of unconscious expression, first in the dream and eventually in all the more orderly products of religion and art and morals.”
—Lewis Mumford (1895–1990)
“There are moods in which we court suffering, in the hope that here, at least, we shall find reality, sharp peaks and edges of truth. But it turns out to be scene-painting and counterfeit. The only thing grief has taught me, is to know how shallow it is.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)