This process increases the importance of edge effects, and although its negative effects can be mitigated by habitat corridors, it can cause inbreeding depression by isolating a species's populations.
This process can lead to type D extinction vortices, and Carl Huffaker suggested that it may lead to the creation of prey refugia by increasing heterogeneity. Two competing hypotheses about this phenomenon's effects are the proportional area and extinction threshold hypotheses. To investigate the effects of this process, Thomas Lovejoy conducted the BDFFP in the Amazon rainforest, which was also intended to help resolve the "single large or several small" debate, which Daniel Simberloff treated as a special case of this process. The species-area relationship has been used to apply island biogeography theory to the loss of biodiversity due to this process. This process increases the importance of edge effects, and although its negative effects can be mitigated by habitat corridors, it can cause inbreeding depression by isolating a species's populations. For 10 points, name this process in which a continuous habitat is broken up into smaller pieces.
This process can lead to type D extinction vortices, and Carl Huffaker suggested that it may lead to the creation of prey refugia by increasing heterogeneity.
habitat fragmentation [accept word forms or "population fragmentation"; prompt on "habitat loss" or equivalents]