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Question 7 (11.111111111 points)

A housing development is planned next to the park. The main environmental concern is that roads will fragment habitat, preventing animals from moving between forest patches. Why is habitat fragmentation problematic for wildlife populations?
Question 7 options:

Small, isolated populations face higher extinction risks from multiple factors

Fragmentation affects only plant species, not animal populations

Animals will quickly learn to avoid roads and adapt completely

Small habitat patches support the same species diversity as large patches

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Small, isolated populations face higher extinction risks from multiple factors.

Fragmentation reduces population sizes and connectivity, increasing inbreeding, demographic and environmental stochasticity, loss of genetic diversity, edge effects, and vulnerability to local extinctions.