Practice question · True or false
Habitat loss is currently a larger driver of extinction than climate change.
Hints
- Global change has several drivers, not one.
- Direct destruction and fragmentation of habitat is the largest at present.
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True
Why
True, habitat loss and fragmentation remain the largest single driver today, though climate change is growing in importance and the two interact: a fragmented landscape leaves species with nowhere to move as conditions shift.
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