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Exam 1 Flashcards

1
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Reasons for accelerated extinction…

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Human Population Increasing
Air & Water Quality
Pollution
Climate Change

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Goals of Conservation Biology

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  1. Prevent extinctions
  2. Maintain genetic variation
  3. Protect and restore communities and ecosystem functions
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3
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Conservation Biology

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Broader study then most other sciences, looks at whole of biodiversity

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Issues with conservation biology…

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Some processes are guesses and most are long term fixes, dealing with more then immediate crisis

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Ethical Principles of Conservation Biology.

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DIversity should be preserved
Extinctions Prevented 
Ecological Complexity Maintained
Evolution should continue
Biodiversity has intrinsic value
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Preservation Ethic

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spiritual and artisitc value over exploiting resources (intrinsic value)

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Resource Conservation Ethic

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whatever furthers the greatest good of the greatest number of people over time

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Sustainable Development

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meets needs of present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet own needs

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Ecosystem Management

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maintain species and ecosystems but allows sustatinable utilizations

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Planinh Conservation Project

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Canceptualize, Plan and Monitor, Implement actions (monitor), Analyze, Capture and Share, Repeat

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Species Diversity
Genetic Diversity
Ecosystem Diversity

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  1. All species on Earth
  2. genetic variation within species
  3. DIfferent communities and their association with environment
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Species Defined as
Morphonlogical
Biological
Phylogenetic

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  1. morphologically, physiologically or biochemically distinct
  2. group of indivduals that can breed among themselves in the wild
  3. smallest dagnosable cluster of individual organisms within which there is a prental pattern of ancestry
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Speciation
Phyletic Evolution
Adaptive Radion

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  1. Process of new species formation
  2. gradual change into new species
  3. lcal adaption and subsequent speciation (honeycreeper)
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Population

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reproducing group of individuals that may be a few to millions in numbers

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Ecosystem integrity

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presence of all key ecosystem processes (good = healthy ecosystem)

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If an Ecosystem is resistant

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has the ability to remain stable even with disturbance

17
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If an ecosystem is resliliant

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it can return to stable state after a distrubance has destablized it

18
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Best places to find biodiversity are…

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Lower Elevation
High Solar Radiation
High Precipitation

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Endemic

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specific to one area

20
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Reasons for Tropical Biodiversity

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large amounts of solar radiatin
large geographic area
low glacial period impacts
warm and wet
niche specilization due to predicatble environment

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