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Bio 346 - Freshwater Eco. (Chpt 8) -- > Uses, Misuses and Restoration of Headwater Streams and Rivers Flashcards

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1
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What would salmon die without?

A

River systems in order to migrate

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2
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What did family tribes own rights to?

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Specific spots on the river for fishing

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3
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What was the river commonly used for?

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Transportation

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4
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What was 5 things were commonly traded, instead of money?

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  1. Salmon oil
  2. Berries
  3. Dog meat
  4. Jade
  5. Slaves
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5
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Animals were believed to become what after death?

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  • Reincarnated as gods
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6
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What happened if you failed to share wealth?

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Its as believed the result in punishment by the animal, such as a failure int he salmon run

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7
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Where are headwaters often located?

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In upland regions where soils are thin

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8
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Pasturage

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Deliberate removal of forest

- Expect in very dry and high areas

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9
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What impact does the clutter created by fallen tress have on the natural forest? (2 things)

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  1. Provides structure that is needed for fully functioning streams
  2. Creates places protected from grazers where tree seedlings can grow
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10
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What happens to predators as human settlement increases? What about the small animals?

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  • Decrease in predators

- Increase in small animals

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11
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What happens to water retention as the oxidation of soil increases?

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It decreases

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12
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What is the pH of acid rain?

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5.5

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13
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What happens to fish as acidification continues?

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Decrease in fish in streams

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14
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What initially caused acidification?

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The industrial expansion in the 20th century

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15
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Where does acidification come from

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Combustion of mini, coal and production of gases

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16
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What is a product of acidification?

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SOx and NOx

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17
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What happens tot eh fish eggs if you reduce pH?

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It interferes with the enzyme that fish embryos use to break through egg membranes

  • They will fail to hatch
  • Crustaceans can’t form their exoskeleton for protection
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18
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What are N gases produced by? (3 things)

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  1. Vehicle engines
  2. Burning of vegetation
  3. Emission of NH3 from animal wastes
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19
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What are some serious effects due to increase in N gases? (4 things)

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  1. Damage to local vegetation, causing increase vulnerability for forest trees to frost
  2. Drought
  3. N loading decreases diversity
  4. Increases grazing damage from insects
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20
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When are sensitivities highest?

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In cold, dry areas with soils that have low base saturation compared to warmer, wet areas with a higher base saturation

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21
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What does dust provide?

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Substantial buffering capacity

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22
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What are the 2 most important components when controlling environmental emissions?

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  1. P

2. N

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23
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What does during of agriculture and coal produce?

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NH3 (ammonia)

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24
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What happens to agricultural sources if coal burning decreased?

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Increase

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25
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What do we see in critical loading?

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Decrease in quantity and quality of species

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26
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What are 3 ways silt and particulate nutrients to steams?

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  1. Ploughing
  2. Tillage
  3. Fertilization
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27
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Eutrophication

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Is the transfer of nutrients

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28
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What part of the tree sinks to the bottom of rivers and clogs the beds?

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Tree needles

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29
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How do trees help acidification? And what happens when they re removed?

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  • Trees help with the uptake of acidification

- If removed they will no longer be effective

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30
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Who produce biological waste?

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People

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31
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What 4 things are contained in sewage disposal?

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  1. Organic matter
  2. Nutrients
  3. Bacteria
  4. Viruses
32
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What are 2 consequences from using the water directly from the stream?

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  1. Increase in gastrointestinal disease

2. Outbreaks of typhoid and cholera

33
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Where do the nutrients P and N go when the ground is fully saturated?

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Goes to the nearest stream

34
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What are the negative effects of weed blankets?

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  1. Nutrient dilution
  2. Decrease in algal growth
  3. Decrease in O2
35
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What happens to the demand of O2 as you get further away from the outfall?

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Increases

- The higher demand for O2, the lower capacity for species can survive and will eventually decrease

36
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What does BOD stand for?

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Biological oxygen demand

37
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What diverse waste has industries produced? (4 things)

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  1. Heavy metals
  2. Acids
  3. Alkalis
  4. Deoxygenating chemicals
38
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When there is a decrease in chemicals, what happens to the species diversification?

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It increases

39
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Water supplies are more likely to be what as human activity increases?

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Contaminated by with diseased organisms

40
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What re 4 negative side effects to damming?

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  1. Stops migration of fish (can’t spawn)
  2. Alters size and flow of rivers
  3. Traps nutrients
  4. Effects ecosystems
    - Flood plains left dry
    - Salt water penetrates fro inland
    - Fisheries are destroyed
41
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Changing upstream

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Nutrients

42
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Changing downstream

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Water flow

43
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What happens when we fish more than the production of species?

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They are lost

44
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Why here hatcheries created?

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Because breeding was not successful in the world

45
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What do fast flowing rivers do?

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Provide power for machinery

Eg) cotton gins, metal hammers and looms

46
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What mostly kills pathogens?

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Heat

- Sludge is then converted to a more or less pleasant solid

47
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What can produced methane do?

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Help to generate power to run the pumps needed at the works

48
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How do regulations limit how much [ ] of specific substances that can be discharged into the rivers?

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Through cost

49
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What 3 countries still have poor sewage treatments even though they have thriving economies?

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  1. China
  2. India
  3. Brazil
50
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What kind of lakes are more likely to be N limited?

(More P limited) (3 things)

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  • Lowland lakes
  • Shallow lakes
  • Lakes in warmer regions
51
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What happens to biodiversity as N increases?

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It decreases

52
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Where is N more commonly originated from?

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Agricultural land

- Rather than from sewage

53
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Removing what kind of contaminant through wastewater treatments is more expensive to remove and why?

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  • N is more expensive to remove than P

- Less soluble

54
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How do you remove Nitrate? Phosphate?

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  • Denitrification

- Absorption

55
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What happens to the use of pesticides as the need for agricultural increases?

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Increases

56
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What causes chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs)?

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New refrigerants and propellant gases from spray cans

57
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What do CFCs effect?

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The ozone layer, which helps to protect us from UV radiation

58
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What form does P come in?

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Particle form (doesn't have a gas form) 
- Can travel over long distances
59
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What are 3 examples of heavy metals?

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  1. Pb
  2. Cd
  3. Hg
60
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What is DDT used for?

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Crop insecticide (cotton), protection against malaria, typhus

61
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Dioxins used for?

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Unintentionally produced during combustion, manufacturing (paper and metal recycling) Smoke

62
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How was rivers monitored in the 20th century?

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Monitored dissolved O2 [ ] , NH3 [ ] and BOD

63
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What does organic pollution do to O2 [ ], BOD and NH3 [ ?

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  • Decrease O2

- Increase BOD and NH3 [ ]

64
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What are 5 common things measured at the sites?

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  1. Slope
  2. Distance from the source
  3. pH
  4. Chloride content
  5. Nature of the bottom substratum
65
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What does the water framework directive (WFD) do?

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Attempts to remedy the restrictions whilst giving a more comprehensive framework for water management then as been possible

66
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What does the WFD cover?

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Rivers, streams, lakes, reservoirs, estuaries and coastal waters
- But not open waters

67
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What are rivers characterized from? (5 things)

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  1. Latitude
  2. Depth
  3. Area
  4. Catchment size
  5. Local geology
    - Things that aren’t influenced by human activity
68
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What are 5 things that need to be taken into account for water chemistry?

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  1. O2
  2. pH
  3. Nutrients
  4. Salinity
  5. Polluting substances
69
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What is water quality largely monitored by?

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Chemical approaches

70
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What are the 3 fundamental ecological characteristics that pristine sites have?

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  1. Parsimony of nutrient availability
  2. Characteristic structure
  3. Connectivity with other systems
71
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What is the only logical way of approaching the requirements?

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1st to determine scenario for high and good quality and then work backwards to figure out what needs to be done

72
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What is the composition of the atmosphere regulated by?

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Balance of photosynthesis and respiration

73
Q

Where is water stored and purified?

A

Wetland systems

- Others protect coasts against erosion and stroms

74
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Rehabilitation ecology

A

The recreation of a semi-natural system that resembles the natural ones
- Its what we do when we manage a nature reserve to encourage growth of particular plant and animal communities or cover domestic landfill or minerals waste tip with some sort of vegetation

75
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Reconciliation ecology

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Recreating ecological systems that provide essential functions yet allow for human needs
- requires a much greater effort

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