Biodiversity Flashcards

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How can mutations affect biodiversity?

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  • occur in DNA and creates newallele
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Interbreeding

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  • individuals from two populations breed and transfer alleles
  • causes gene flow
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Selective breeding

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  • few individuals in population selected for their advantageous characteristics and bred
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How does natural selection affect biodiversity

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  • species evolve to code for characteristics that code for advantageous characteristics
  • less advantageous genes will be lost overtime
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Factors that affect genetic biodiversity (7)

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  • Mutations in DNA
  • Interbreeding; gene flow
  • selective breeding
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  • artifices cloning
  • natural selection
  • founder effect
  • genetic drift
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Importance of biodiversity

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  • Maintains balanced ecosystem as all species are dependant
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Human activity that affects biodiversity (3)

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  • Deforestation
  • Agriculture: increases monoculture
  • Clearing land for housing
  • Climate change; human activity increases global warming
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Sampling and its uses (3)

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  • Taking measurements of a limited number of individual organisms present in a particular area
  • measures particular characteristics and abundance of species
  • helps make predictions or generalisations
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Random sampling

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  • Selecting individuals by chance, each individual in the population has an equal chance of being selected
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Non-random sampling

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  • Opportunistic; organisms conveniently available

- Systematic; sampling different areas within an overall habitat. Measures change over an area eg transect

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What can affect reliability of a sample

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  • Sampling bias

- Chance; organism might not be representative

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Different sampling techniques for animals

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  • Pooter: small insects
  • Sweeter nets: organisms in long nets
  • Pitfall traps: small invertebrates and mammals
  • Tree beating
  • Kick sampling: river bank and bed
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Sampling for animals

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  • Quadrat; frame or point
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Species evenness (2)

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  • Number of individual species on a given area

- How close the number of species are

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Why are abiotic sensors used? (4)

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  • Human errors
  • greater precision
  • data can be stored and tracked on computer
  • rapid changes can be detected
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What are abiotic factors; included examples(6)

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  • Nonliving conditions in an environment. Usually have direct affect on organisms in habitat.
  • eg; pH, wind speed, light intensity, relative humidity, temperature
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How is biodiversity calculated

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  • Simpson’s index; takes into account richness and evenness with 1 being the highest diversity
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Habitat features for low biodiversity (5)

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  • few numbers of successful species
  • stress/ extreme with few ecological niches
  • simple food webs
  • very specific adaptations
  • change to the environment massively affects ecosystem
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Importance of generic biodiversity

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  • The more alleles present in a population, the more biodiversity
  • Species with greater genetic biodiversity are more likely to be able to adapt to environment
  • It is more likely for organisms to contain advantageous characteristics
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Polymorphism (2)

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  • Genes that have more than one allele

- eg blood type in humans are determined by 3 alleles

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How does deforestation affect biodiversity (3)

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  • Reduces number of trees
  • destroys animal habitat so reduces animal species present in that area
  • animals forced to migrate to other areas which increases neighbouring biodiversity
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How does agriculture affect biodiversity

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  • Pesticides reduces biodiversity
  • herbicides also reduces biodiversity
  • Monoculture
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Reasons for maintaining biodiversity

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  • Aesthetics; how the region appears
  • Economical; how the region can affect income
  • Ecological reasons; how species are supported in the region
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Economic reasons for maintaining biodiversity (7)

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  • Soil erosion and desertification due to deforestation causes lack of crops and decline in resources
  • By not conserving organisms used to make things, the removal of resources makes economical industries viable
  • Species with potentially economical importance can become extinct through large scale habitat loss
  • Monoculture; soil depletion makes soil weaker and plants more susceptible to pests
  • Lack of biodiversity makes organisms more vulnerable against abiotic stresses eg disease/ weather
  • Promotes tourism with pleasing biodiversity
  • Plant biodiversity means advantageous characteristics can be interbred
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Ecological reasons for maintaining biodiversity?
- All organisms are dependant on each other for survival - Removal of keystone species drastically affects the whole ecosystem. Important to protect keystone species as they have largest biomass and productivity - Allows regulation of oxygen and CO2 in the atmosphere. - Allows minerals to be recycled in the ecosystem.
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What is conservation
- Preservation and management of environment of natural resources. - In situ; within natural habitat - ex situ; out of natural habitat
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How are species classified in terms of classification (4)
- Extinct - Extinct in the wild; only exists in captivity - Endangered; danger of extinction - Vulnerable; considered likely to become endangered in the near future
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In situ conservation
- preserves interdependent relationships present in a habitat so interlinked species are also preserved - Wildlife reserves - Marine conservation zones
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Describe wildlife reserves techniques (6)
- Controlled grazing - restricting human access - controlled poaching - feeding animals - reintroducing species - removing invasive species
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Ex situ conservation techniques (3)
- Botanic gardens - Seed banks - captive breeding
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Marine conservation zones (2)
- Creates areas of refuge within populations can build up and repopulate - large areas are targeted which allows target species to move over large distances
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Botanic gardens (2)
- Species are given best resources: soil nutrients, watering, prevention of pests - plants grown are a potentiometer source of genes that have resistance to disease, pests and parasites
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Seed banks (3)
- Gene bank: provides back up against extinction of wild plants - seeds collected and dried below 20 degrees: Slowly down the rate of seed germination - does not work on all plants: tropical rainforest trees
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Captive breeding programmes (3)
- Producing offsprings of species in human controlled environment - Includes zoo, aquatic centres - the species are eventually released back to its natural habitat after producing a healthy population of species
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Why may some species in captive breeding not be able to be released? (4)
- Disease: may have not developed resistance to new diseases - Behaviour: species have learned behaviour which are not beneficial- eg looking for food. - Genetic races: captive animals become so different that they cannot interbreed with original population - Habitat; natural habitat must be stable and restored before animal is reintroduced
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Conservation agreements
- cross boarder protection - International Union for the Conservation of Nature - The Rio Convention - Countryside stewardship scheme
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International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) (3)
- Red List is published each year which details conservation status of threatened animals - Countries work together to conserve the species - Establishes the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES): trade in wild animals and plants across boarders
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The Rio Convention (6)
- The Convention on Biological diversity (CBD): countries have to develop national strategies for sustainable use of organisms - share genetic resources - share access to scientific knowledge - promote ex situ conservation; eg set up seed banks - raise awareness of biodiversity to general public - allow cohesive international cooperation
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Countryside stewardship scheme/ Environmental Stewardship scheme (5)
- Payments offered to farmers and land managers to enhance and conserve English landscape - Sustains beauty and biodiversity - restores neglected land - conserves archaeological and historic features - improves and creates wildlife habitats
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What are the different ways of improving sampling techniques (3)
- Seasonal variation; different times of the year and day - Methods to ensuring individuals are not counted again - Efficient ways of capturing species and correctly identifying them
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Advantages of seed banks over Adult plants
- take up less space - rate of germination is slowed down and can be stored for a longer period - stores greater genetic diversity - easier to transport
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CITES (5)
- Conservation on International Trade of Endangered Species - Monitors trade in endangered species - Ensures trade does not endanger wild populations - Prohibits trade in wild plants - allows trade in less endanger organisms
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What does a high value in Simpson's Index of diversity indicate? (4)
The habitat has a high biodiversity. There is a high number of species which are represented evenly. Habitat is stable and resistant to disruption. Habitat is worth conserving.
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What does a low value in Simpson's Index of diversity indicate? (4)
Habitat has a low bioversity. Habitat is dominated by one/ a few species. Habitat is unstable and susceptible to disruption. Habitat may be man made.