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Ecology Flashcards

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Campos

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Campos/katingas/cerrados
•tropical grassland
•Brazilian savannah
•coffee plantations & chocolate production

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Savannah

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🌸 tropical grassland

🌸 mali, Nagar, Chad, Central African Republic, Sudan, South Sudan

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Rangeland of northern territory and Queensland

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🌸 tropical grasslands of Australia
🌸 on the boundaries of Northern Territory and Queensland
🌸 Coal and iron or mining

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Llano

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🌸 tropical grasslands of Colombia and Venezuela
🌸 West of Orinoco drain land
🌸 Rich in petroleum deposits

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Pampas

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Temperate grassland of Argentina

Known for dairy industry

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Gran Chaco

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🌸 temperate grasslands of Argentina and Paraguay

🌸 warm since Tropic of Cap passes through

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Prairies

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🌸 temperate grasslands of North America (Canada and USA)
🍁 Canadien prairies are also called as Saskatchewan
🌸 leeward side of rocky mountains in USA and Canada
🍁 known as the breadbasket of the world due to high production of wheat
🌸 US prairies inhabitants are red Indians Crow, cree, Apache, Pawee tribes
🍁R mississippi
🌸American bison- endanged buffalo

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Steppe

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🌸 temperate grasslands in eurasia
🌸 high production of wheat
🌸 Russia and Ukraine

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Down

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🌸 temperate grasslands in Australia
🌸 animal husbandry
🌸 known for dairy and wool production
🌸 Drained by a rivers murray and darling

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Manchurian

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🌸 Temperate grasslands in Asia

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Canteberry

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🍁 Temperate grasslands of New Zealand
🍁 animal husbandry
🍁known for dairy
🍁 East of Southern Alps

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Veld

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🌸 temperate grasslands of southern Africa
🌸 Known for its wool production – Worlds finest wool Marino is found between a river vaal and drakensberg
🌸 covers Botswana Zimbabwe South Africa Lesotho Namibia Swaziland

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Pustaz

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Temperate grasslands of Europe

Hungary

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Banni grassland

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Tropical grassland of India

Situated in Gujarat

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Shola grasslands

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Tropical & temperate grassland of India

Situated in Karnataka, Kerala and Tamil Nadu

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Terai grasslands

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Tropical grasslands of India
They are mostly moist deciduous forest
Situated in UP and Bihar

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Indian Savannah

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Tropical grasslands of India

Situated in Maharashtra Gujarat Rajasthan Karnataka Andhra Pradesh Telangana Chhattisgarh and Madhya Pradesh

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Tropical grasslands of India

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A. Banni grasslands of Gujarat
B. Shola grasslands of Kerala Karnataka and Tamil Nadu
C. Terai of UP and Bihar
D. Indians Savannah

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Temperate grasslands of India

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A. Shola grasslands of Kerala Karnataka and Tamil Nadu
B. Bugyals of Uttarakhand
C. Margs in Kashmir
D. Khajjiar In Himachal Pradesh

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Ramsar convention

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🌸 it is an intergovernmental treaty which is not binding instrument and not under UN
🌸Its objective as conservation and sustainable use of wetlands through local and national action and international cooperation so that ecology kale character of the wetlands be maintained
🌸Iran

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Wetland according to that Ramseur treaty

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These are areas of Marsh, fen, Peatland or water, whether natural or artificial, permanent or temporary, with water that is static or flowing, fresh, brackish or salt, including areas of marine water and death of which at low tide does not exceed 6 m

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Country with the greatest area of wetlands listed (ramsar)

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Bolivia

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Country with the highest number of ramsar sites

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United Kingdom

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The only treaty which is concerned about one particular ecosystem

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Ramseur convention

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Number of wetlands in India listed under Ramseur convention

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46 wetlands (4-10-21)

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Great Lakes

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🌸 wetlands in North America
🌸 consist of late superior, Lake Michigan (US), Lake Huron, Lake Erie Lake Ontario
🌸 Worlds largest inland water transport system
🌸Lake superior – worlds largest freshwater lake by volume

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Lake Titicaca

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Cordilleras of andes- Chain of mountains with active volcanoes
🌸Highest freshwater lake of the world
🌸Ramsar site
🌸 located with in aunties on the borders of Bolivia and Peru

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Lake Victoria

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Ramsar site in Africa
Located in Kenya Tanzania and Uganda
Largest freshwater lake of Africa
Origin of nile (W) river
 equator passing
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Lake malawi/nyasa

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Ramsar site in Africa

Situated on the borders of Tanzania, Mozambique, Malawi

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Lake tanganayika

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🌸 Ramseur sites in Africa
🌸 Tanzania Democratic Republic of Congo, Burundi, Zambia
🌸 longest freshwater lake of the world 700 km

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Sea of Gallille/ Lake kinneret

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🌸 Ramsar site in Asia
🌸only freshwater lake of Israel towards the border with syria
🌸 okay runs of this freshwater lake in the Sun famous for selling water bodies as a geographical miracle-It is fed by underwater springs and Jordan River

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Dead Sea

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Ramsar site
Between Israel and Jordan
No biodiversity due to high salinity

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Lake Van

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Ramsar site
Turkey
Hi Salini T – greater than dead Sea

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Aral Sea

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Ramsar site
Between Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan
Changing size that is shrinking and it has lost 80 percentage of the sea – Amu Darya and Sry Darya Are draining into Aral sea Who is waters are being diverted from the rivers for cotton cultivation in Siberia

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L Baikal

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Ramsar site
Deepest freshwater of the world
Affected by man use like Aral sea

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Independent partners to Ramsar

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Six independent partners

IUCN, WWF, birdlife international, wetland international, IWMI, WWT

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Montex record Sites in India

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Loktak Lake, Keoladeo Ghana National Park

Chilika -removed

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State with maximum number of Ramseur sites

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Uttar Pradesh - eight

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Which is the largest Ramsar site in India

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Sundarbans

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Smallest Ramsar site in India

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Renuka

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UNCHE

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1972
Stockholm conference Or UN conference on human environment

UN‘s first major conference on international environmental issues and marking a turning point in the development of international environmental politics

Objective: serve as a practical means to encourage and provide guidelines for the action by governments and international organisations designed to protect and improve the human environment

India came up with the environment protection act 1986 and the directives


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Brundtland report

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Report is also called our common future by the world commission on environment and development & published by UN

First time defined the sustainable development as development not only taking care of the present generations but also not compromising with the demands of the future generations status judicious use of natural resources it also mentioned that sustainable development must been to tourist economies of the world and should reach up to the poorer section of the society in all the countries

Multilateralism & interdependence

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UNCED

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Rio summit or the Earth Summit 1992

UN conference on environment and development

Three notable proceedings:

Agenda 21 which is a sustainable development approach for the 21st century from global to local scale

Rio declaration which involves the formation of 3 Rio conventions

UNCBD, UNCCD, UNFCC – all are legally binding instruments

Global environmental Facility: it is the largest climate fund initiative in the world and the custodian as World Bank
money can be utilised for five different conventions:
UNCBD, UNCCD, UNFCC, Stockholm convention on PoPs, Minimata convention on mercury

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WSSD

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World Summit on sustainable development/Ryeo +10/Johannesburg Summit/Earth Summit 2002

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UNCSD

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UN conference on sustainable development/Earth Summit 2012/Ryeo +20 at Rio De Janeiro

To focus areas

sustainable development——> sustainable development goals adopted under UNDP To be achieved by 2030

Green economy– – – – > lead to the adoption of PAGE (partnership for action on green Economy) under five different UN organs:
UNEP UNDP UNIDO, ILO, UNITR

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