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Compare the impacts of forest fragmentation and hunting on animal and plant species in the humid tropics. Use examples from at least two tropical continents.
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Compare the impacts of forest fragmentation and hunting on animal and plant species in the humid tropics. Use examples from at least two tropical continents. The earth's tropical regions are the most important to biological diversity. However as tropical deforestation and unsustainable hunting continues many species are under increased threat of elimination through habitat destruction, both directly and indirectly. This essay will look at a number of cause and effect situations of fragmentation and hunting and in doing so will attempt to show that the consequences of each process are often interrelated, affecting both plant and animal communities as a whole, therefore prompting a need to evaluate the impact of each practice and reconsider how best to preserve the integrity of tropical ecosystems. "Where there is deforestation, fragmentation is inevitable". Bierregard et. al. (1992). Regions within certain countries have been more severely affected by forest fragmentation than others. For example, the Atlantic coastal...
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