Chap 9 Flashcards
World’s Largest Rainforest
Amazon Rainforest
Amazon Rainforest covers portion of?
Brazil, Colombia, Peru
Roughly triangle area
Coral Triangle
Global Center of Marine Biodiversity
Coral triangle
How many building reef building corals mentioned
798 reef building corals
76% of the world’s coral species are found in
Coral triangle
Bio means?
Diversity means?
Bio- Life
Diversity- Variety
The term life and variety coined by?
Walter Rosen 1985
encompasses the variety of all life
Biodiversity
continuously shaped by natural processes
influenced by human activities.
Biodiversity
TRUE AND FALSE: Biotic - Non living things
False
TRUE AND FALSE: Abiotic - non living things
True
Biodiversity forms the web of?
LIFE
The variability among living organisms from all sources including, inter alia, terrestrial, marine, and other aquatic ecosystem.
1992 Convention on Biological Diversity
not the sole measure of biodiversity
species count
a management practice that seeks to conserve, protect, and restore habitats, and
prevent species from extinction.
habitat conservation
Indicator species
Measure of the environment condition
Example of indicator scpecies
- Crown of thorns starfish
- Golden Snails
One of the big competitors of the coral reefs in the marine biodiversity
CROWN-OF-THORNS STARFISH (COTS)
assessment of coral reefs because it is a significant coral predator.
Cots
useful determinant of the production in rice harvest
golden snail
– encompasses the biotic and abiotic component
in an environment, as well as their relationships and
interactions.
ecosystem
refers to the relative proportions
of different species in an ecosystem.
Relative abundance
Types of biodiversity
- Genetic D.
- Species D.
- Community or Ecosystem D.
- Functional D.
