Habitat Loss/ Fragmentation

Habitat Fragmentation: A major threat to biodiversity and a common cause of species extinction. As the name would suggest habitat fragmentation is the "emergence of discontinuities in an organisms preferred environment". Many times this is due to land conversion. 

The most common type of fragmentation we see in the "cloud forests" is obviously "shrinkage". The biological impacts of habitat fragmentation include; species exclusion, crowding, sepcies isolation and invasion, edge effects, the list goes on. Exclusion and isolation lead can reduce the ability to disperse and thrive. Edge effects make animals more suceptible to predation and human exploitation. Animals don't know where to go when their habitat is turned into something else leaving them vulnerable. 
The picture to the right shows a brown bear roaming into the road as his original natral habitat has now become a transportation route for humans.