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Originally Posted by wdfifteen
There is a huge loss of habitat.
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This can be counter intuitive depending on how development is done.
Think of the air cooled fins on your Porsche.
If it were just a flat plane instead, and you cut into it to make fins, rather than a loss of radiation, you have an increase.
What is happening in my area is development and increase in wild life both.
This is because deep forest has a comparatively flat top canopy; there is open space under good for predators.
The fringes in contrast have a 3d vertical element that increase surface area, this also provides better cover for critters from predators.
Running housing developments in fingers similar to the fins on an aircooled car can increase the wild life in an area.
Development introduces a vertical area all along the fringes.
This vertical area has a greater variety of life than the comparatively horizontal area of a deep un developed forest.
This is also why forest fires and violent storms are so important as they take out sections of the deep forest and create fringes.
The world is a lot less simple than I used to think it was.