yes it is
In a way, yes. Fragmentation means a little bit of clearing though, such as the removal of a line of trees for a road. Habitat clearing is removing the whole area, for perhaps houses.
Deforestation
The difference between habitat and habitat fragmentation is that habitat is area where an organism lives and habitat fragmentation is altration of small areas withen a large region, creating a patchwork of altered and original habitats.
Habitat loss refers to the complete destruction of a habitat, habitat degradation is the deterioration in the quality of a habitat without total destruction, and habitat fragmentation is the breaking up of a continuous habitat into smaller disconnected patches.
Referring to when a habitat is somehow broken up.
Habitat fragmentation is the process of dividing the population of an area into smaller sections. This can help with areas of overcrowding or with limited resources.
"Clearing", a gerund.
the blue banded bee is killed by habitat clearing because the habitat clearing dudes eat them :P
a decrease in biodiversity.
Los of habitat and habitat fragmentation are the factors that endanger pandas.
Habitat Fragmentation
Habitat fragmentation is the breaking up of a continuous habitat into smaller, isolated patches. Edge effect occurs at the boundaries between different habitats, where ecological conditions are often different from those in the interior of the habitat. Habitat fragmentation increases edge effect, exposing species to more edge conditions and potentially altering ecosystem dynamics and species interactions.