Grasslands Used to Be Spread Across Large Portions of North

question 9

Multiple Choice

Grasslands used to be spread across large portions of North America. However, human land use has separated formerly large, continuous grassland into many smaller isolated patches. This is an example of

• A) habitat fragmentation.
• B) rescue effect.
• C) extinction.
• D) dampened oscillations.

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