Intro to Biodiversity Notes Flashcards
What case study had a volcano explode?
Rakata Island
Diversity and Resilience?
Diversity is the property that makes resilience possible
What is biodiversity?
The variety of life on Earth
Who is E.O. Wilson?
Had perspectives on Rakata Island
what is a Food Web?
Interconnected species through which NRG is passed
What are the four components of a food web?
The Sun
Producers
Consumers
Decomposers
Where are decomposers?
in the Biosphere, Atmosphere, and Hydrophere
What is the Fragile Web?
The idea that Everything is Connected, and that there is a Carrying Capacity
Four reasons to care about biodiversity?
Biological
Utilitarian
Aesthetic
Moral
What is an Ecological Footprint?
The theoretical spatial requirement to sustain something
Two main ideas on where the people of Easter Island were from?
Either Chilé or Polynesia
Three reasons for why Easter Island’s forest disappeared?
1) Deforestation
2) Rats
3) The little ice age (stress)
How does evolution happen?
Evolution happens through natural selection via speciatio
What is the biological definition of a species?
Organisms belong to the same species if two members can interbreed and produce viable offspring that are fertile
How to tell if morphologically similar?
Look at the genes
