Environmental Terminology and Discovery Service (ETDS)
Definition (english only)
The breaking-up of continuous tracts of ecosystems creating barriers to migration or dispersal of organisms and reducing the size of homogenous areas. "Fragmentation" may be induced by human activities (e.g. road infrastructures, dams) or by natural processes.
Translations of "fragmentation":
Bulgarian: ????????????, ?????????, ???????????? ?? ???????
Czech: fragmentace
Danish: fragmentering
Dutch: fragmentatie
English: fragmentation
Estonian: killustumine
Finnish: ekosysteemialueiden pirstoutuminen
French: fragmentation
German: Zerschneidung
Greek: ?atateµa??sµ??
Hungarian: {NATBIO} fragmentáció
Icelandic: sundrun (vistkerfa)
Italian: frammentazione
Latvian: fragmentacija
Lithuanian: fragmentacija
Norwegian: fragmentering
Polish: fragmentacja
Portuguese: fragmentação
Romanian: Fragmentare
Slovak: fragmentácia
Slovenian: fragmentacija
Spanish: fragmentación
Swedish: fragmentering