Habitat fragmentation is an important area of concern in species conservation. Habitat
fragmentation can affect population distributions through reductions in suitable habitat,
and through organism responses to different habitat types and the transitions between
them. In earlier work, the effect of habitat fragmentation on cyclic populations was
investigated in the context of populations that show no behavioural response to the
interface between habitat types. In this paper, we extend the earlier work by adding
edge-mediated behaviour to the models. That is, we investigate the dynamics that result
when oscillatory predator and prey species also exhibit behavioural responses to habitat
interfaces. Our results show generally that habitat loss decreases the amplitude and the
average density of the prey and predator populations, but that most of the reponses
observed in the two models exhibit marked differences. This work highlights the complexity
of the interplay between population cycles, habitat fragmentation, and edge-mediated
behaviour, and the need to study such systems in greater detail.