Fragmentation of forest ecosystems: Definitions of concepts and evolution of assessment methods

This article appears as a review on habitats fragmentation. It clarified key concepts related to fragmentation and summarized methods and tools used for assessing fragmentation. Results revealed that fragmentation understanding was perceived at different ways. However, there is an intersection between all definitions we met in the literature. Fragmentation is commonly known as the filtering of a given habitat, its size, shape and the spatial distribution of its components. At forest level, fragmentation was known to limit fauna and flora needs due to the habitat