Biodiversity Lecture 2

Question 1

FLAG SPECIES

Answer 1

Species for which it is easy to obtain resources for

conservation (i.e. pandas)

Question 2

UMBRELLA SPECIES

Answer 2

Species whose conservation requires the protection of
very large areas and consequently by protecting this
species many others are protected (i.e. elephant)

Question 3

KEY SPECIES

Answer 3

Species essential to maintain the existing balance in

a given ecological system (i.e. sea otter)

Question 4

FOCAL SPECIES

Answer 4

A species, or a group of species that identify an area
of spatial and functional needs capable of effectively
understanding those of all the other species in the area
to be protected

Question 5

Definition of biodiversity

Answer 5

The biodiversity is defined as ‘the variety of life
on Earth at all its levels, from genes to
ecosystems, and the ecological and
evolutionary processes that sustain it

Question 6

Taxonomic diversity

Answer 6

Number of species

in a given assemblage

Question 7

Functional diversity

Answer 7

assessing the «role»
of each species present in a given
assemblage

Question 8

Phylogenetic diversity

Answer 8

considering the
evolutionary history of each species
present in a given assemblage