While understanding Environmental Impact Assessment of developmental projects , it is necessary to understand the probable impacts on ecology and biodiversity by any upcoming developmental activity. Various environs like water, air and soil has its impact on ecology and biodiversity of the surrounding area of the developmental activity. I would like to know the impacts in terms of habitat loss, corridor loss, physiological changes etc.
https://www.epa.gov/sites/production/files/2014-08/documents/ecological-impacts-highway-development-pg_0.pdf
http://redpath-museum.mcgill.ca/Qbp/3.Conservation/impacts.htm
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Through the habitat loss, some plants may become rare, threatened, endangered,and some times entire population single may be wiped out.The invasive plants will become more and there will a stiff competition between the pollinators.There will be change in the corridor.Migration of few animals can be expected.
The impacts go beyond habitat, corridors etc. as mentioned in the question. Impact assessment has got to do a lot with the geographical area under consideration. Level of endemism in an area is also a very important factor. Species which are endemic to an area may become extinct due to large development projects in such areas.
Dear Dr. Ghosh, The impact I wish to know is of any developmental activity such as industry or construction or mining etc.
In that case, It would be very appropriate to predict that there will be loss of ecological corridor. This is because, the developmental activity requires restoration of deforested land (but not of water bodies) and my experience (from pollution control boards) the trees that are planted belong to Acacia group which does not support any habitat of any type of fauna.
Good morning. My answer derives from the principles and methods of Landscape Bionomics, so I add a file with my last work on an argument like this.
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