1

Liceo de Apodaca
Maria Guadalupe Sanchez Villegas Artifial habits 8a Denmark Friday, 11 January, 2013

What is a artificial habits?

A habitat that has been affected by humans in some way, usually that has been changed for a purpose.-wiki.answers.com-

In its simplest terms when habitat is destroyed, plants, animals and other organisms that are occupied limited carrying capacity, leading to a population decline and even extinction. The biggest risk faced by species worldwide is habitat loss. wikipedia.com-

Habitat destruction is the process in which natural habitat is a habitat become unable to support the same native species. wikipedia.com-

Mexico, like other megadiverse countries, unfortunately has a high proportion of threatened ecosystems, the most affected the cloud forest and evergreen forest, which results in loss of habitat (Toledo and Ordonez, 1998). To retain need care and use of natural resources properly on our planet, and help your recovery. The main threats to the survival of the species can be divided into two categories: natural and resulting impact on ecosystems caused by humans. Natural hazards are mainly in climatic changes, such as global changes in the atmosphere (although at present, the research has shown that the impact of human activities contribute substantially to global warming due to emissions of greenhouse gases), natural disasters such as torrential rains, volcanic eruptions, wildfires and predation by herbivores. The same processes of natural selection also contribute to the disappearance of species. Furthermore, within the category of the main threats caused by human activities such as agriculture, the fires caused, excessive logging and generally excessive population growth, are habitat fragmentation, deforestation, loss or land degradation and desertification (CONABIO, 2000; Flower and Lucas, 1998).
One of the main threats currently facing ecosystem is deforestation, which refers to the loss of large areas of trees or even total elimination of natural forest. How to be that deforestation and what are the main causes? Probably the main reason is the excessive population growth, which has led the human to make irrational use of forests, to perform an excessive logging for the establishment of areas for agricultural, livestock or other land use, as human settlements and roads. At the same time it has increased the demand for fuel wood used for the construction industry and domestic use (Carty, 1992). In Mexico, a major cause of deforestation is the conversion of large tracts of forest to cattle pasture. The main implications are many: loss of species and genetic variation, general deterioration of the soil, while eliminating important sources of firewood and other basic forest products for rural dwellers (Ochoa, 2000).

As a result of deforestation, another major threat to habitat loss is the fragmentation refers to the division into small patches of what was an original ecosystem, because it alters the natural ecological phenomena (CEC, 1997). Thus, fragmentation refers to the reduction of the original habitat, and therefore its partial destruction, impacting negatively on biodiversity, causing even the disappearance of different species of birds, mammals, reptiles, amphibians, plants and insects, among others (Ochoa, 2000).