Threats to the species include residential development, which can alter the habitat indirectly, such as by adding polluted surface runoff to the waterways.

Most plants observed had been trimmed down by grazing cattle, which also appeared to alter the habitat itself.

This not only damaged the environment from which the soil came, but altered the habitat of the garden into which it was introduced, necessitating lots of maintenance and watering.

But humans have a great capacity for altering their habitats by means of technology.

Human activities related to land development on a large scale are continually altering the habitat of the olive darter.