Introduction
Habitat fragmentation is the process whereby a large area of habitat is split into a number of smaller habitat patches, with a smaller total area \cite{wilcove1986habitat}. Habitat fragmentation in the modern day is largely driven by anthropogenic land use change, such as urbanisation, deforestation and intensive agriculture. These dramatic changes expose pre-existing climax communities to artificial habitats, often with lower productivity \cite{Ries_2004a}. Anthropogenic-mediated fragmentation often results in unnatural and intricate shapes, increasing the proportion of the new habitat which is affected by the edge (Fig. \ref{965599}). Habitat fragmentation significantly reduces the species richness of animals and plants across communities, through time-delayed but deterministic extinction of previously dominant species in a habitat - known as extinction debt . Given the continued increase in habitat fragmentation, and Haddad (2015)'s finding that 20% of remaining forest is within 100m of the forest edge, it's important to understand the effects these edges can have on existing biological communities.