Different kinds of development, e.g. urban development, agriculture, and road construction, create different patterns of habitat fragmentation. Natural gas development will also breaks up ecosystems in a distinctive way. The footprint of
Marcellus drilling consists of well pads and staging areas, where drilling takes place and equipment and materials are stored, access roads to reach the pads, and pipelines to transmit gas once it has been recovered. Additional pipelines may be
built to carry the water needed for hydraulic fracturing to the wellpads, in lieu of truck transportation