Biodiversity

Question 1

What is biodiversity?

Answer 1

diversity in the hereditary variation across all life forms at the genetic, species, and even ecosystem levels

Question 2

Species diversity = ?

Answer 2

Species richness + Relative abundance/eveness

Question 3

What are 3 features in coastal ecosystem diversity?

Answer 3

ocean, forest, mountain

Question 4

What are the 3 interconnecting levels of diversity and complexity?

Answer 4

the parts, how the parts function, how the parts are organized

Question 5

What is intrinsic value?

Answer 5

value in and of itself w/o regard for human needs

Question 6

What is direct value?

Answer 6

products directly consumed by people

Question 7

What is indirect value?

Answer 7

benefits that do not involve the consumption of resources - recreation and education, ecosystem services

Question 8

What are Ecosystem services and give a few examples?

Answer 8

The conditions and processes
through which natural ecosystems
sustain life, including human life
- purification of air and water
- climate stabilization
- crop pollination
- soil fertility

Question 9

Global Gross National Profit (GNP) is how much a year?

How much is ecosystem services worth?

Answer 9

18 trillion

33 trillion/year

Question 10

Because of human activities how much greater is the current extinction rate than the background rate?

Answer 10

100-1000 x greater

- current rate of loss is unprecedented

Question 11

What percentage of amphibians is globally threatened by extinction?

Answer 11

41%

Question 12

Globally what percentage of vertebrates is globally threatened by extinction?

Answer 12

10-20%

Question 13

What are the threats to biodiversity driven by?

Answer 13

growth and size of human population, human technology and consumption of natural resources

Question 14

Which is the most biologically diverse region/province in Canada?

Answer 14

BC

Question 15

What is the difference between red and blue listed species?

Answer 15

red is extirpated, endangered or threatened

blue is special concern

Question 16

Why do we use latin instead of common name for identification?

Answer 16

common is not standardized and doesn’t indicate relationships (colloquilisms?)

Question 17

What is the correct way to write genus and species?

Answer 17

Genus capitalized, species uncapitalized all in italics

Question 18

What are 7 major threats to biodiversity?

Answer 18

climate change, habitat destruction, fragmentation, degradation, overexploitation, exotic species, disease