Talk:Habitat destruction

message: While the latter half of this article is quite detailed and comprehensive, I fear that the beginning is overly biased regarding the causes of habitat destruction. I believe the introduction should cover only the definition of Habitat destruction, Habitats, and some of the consequences, and briefly tough on some of the possible causes. The latter part of this article should focus on causes, namely humans, but should also include natural ones as well, as the mechanics behind them, are all but the same. As this change would be a major rewrite, I would like to put it up for discussion first. --Sergris (talk) 17:05, 24 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Content

message: The intro sentence is at best misleading. Use of the word physical change connotes mechanical disturbance such as logging or trawling.  In fact some of the greatest forms of habitat destruction are generated by chemical and meteorological phenomena.  Chemical contamination of surface water, groundwater or soil can render a habitat destroyed or severely impaired. Climate change (whether natural or human induced) can cause aridity or temperature change that can cause similar consequences for flora and fauna. I attempted to make an edit to fix this sentence and another editor reverted my edit. I can adduce many sources to support my edit, but more importantly I would like to hear the comments of other parties besides myself and the reverting editor to build a consensu on this point. Please comment with professional ecologists and environmental scientists most needed here. Cewvero (talk) 02:16, 13 May 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: This article is not about those things; this article is explicitly about human-induced habitat destruction: "Habitat destruction is human-induced habitat change that results in a reduction of natural habitat. This includes conversion of land to agriculture, urban sprawl, infrastructure development, and other anthropogenic changes to the characteristics of land." Please produce your sources and add them to the article.  I am especially interested in seeing sources  for  "some of the greatest forms of habitat destruction are generated by chemical and meteorological phenomena."  I don't know why, but it sounds like you are trying to mitigate physical changes for some reason. Viriditas (talk) 02:29, 13 May 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Cewvero, after talking with you on your user page, I've reverted to your version, as my version did not improve upon the problem.  Viriditas (talk) 04:15, 13 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Intro sentence is flawed

message: This article on Habitat destruction really requires a major expansion, if it should reach higher status. This article covers a very broad scope, so there shouldn't be any reason why this article is at its current state. One good starting point to improve this article is perhaps expand the Solution and the Ecosystem section. Human activity section should also be expanded to contain a few subsection discussing how each type of human activity contribute to habitat destruction and by how much damage they are inflicting. KnowledgeRequire (talk) 20:45, 24 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Improvements 

message: Many of these citations in this article are too vague to be informative: for example, one of the citations given is "MEA 2005", with no other author information. Can these citations be improved? Jarble (talk) 23:29, 11 January 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes.  The references can be improved a little but there is nothing substantial missing.  In case you weren't aware under the Notes section is a References section where the citation are supposed to be written out in full.  It is possible to add links to Google Books listings.  From Google Books we can see that the MEA stands for Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (Program). - Shiftchange (talk) 01:24, 12 January 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Confusing/unclear citations

message: This page seems to focus on main species that vanish due to habitat destruction (say monkeys disappearing due to rainforest being cleared).
What isn't mentioned though are less noticible changes occuring in developed countries. For instance, in central europe, many (seed-eating) birds vanish in favor of just a few bird species which eat earthworms (ie Common blackbird, Eurasian_magpie), and thus benefit from short grass (such as the grass in lawns)
KVDP (talk) 09:14, 2 January 2017 (UTC)
thread_title: Habitat destruction of native organisms in developed countries

message: Section on global warming doesn't add very much to the article information or quality and everything included could easily be included by simply linking to the actual wiki global warming page. Alternatively, this section could be expanded upon as there is plenty of information that could help to provide a greater explanation of the overall topic, if fully explained. I just don't see the current benefit of the couple of sentences as it it quite vague and pretty much common knowledge. Thoughts? LoveTheExperience (talk) 15:00, 8 April 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: I think it should be expanded -- its ne of the key drivers of habitat destruction right now- but it would require some deep reading of the IPCC reports, etc, Sadads (talk) 15:22, 8 April 2021 (UTC)

text: I think the section could definitely do with some expansion. Even without expansion I don't think the section should be removed especially as as it's all referenced. Suonii180 (talk) 18:06, 8 April 2021 (UTC)
replies: text:  I've done a bit of work on that section now. EMsmile (talk) 14:42, 5 February 2024 (UTC)
thread_title: Possible un-needed section

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