Lecture 17 - Conservation and Climate Change

Question 1

Biodiversity valuation

Answer 1

Placing a dollar value on different aspects of biodiversity

Question 2

Ecosystem Services

Answer 2

Benefits from the resources and processes that are supplied by natural

Question 3

Extirpation

Answer 3

The loss of one population of a single species

Question 4

Extinction

Answer 4

The loss of all populations of a species

Question 5

Habitat Loss

Answer 5

Human alteration of landscapes from natural vegetation (wilderness) to any other use

Habitat Destruction, Land-Use Converstion, Urbanization

Question 6

Temperature anomaly

Answer 6

A departure from a long-term average

Positive and Negative

Question 7

Positive Anomaly

Answer 7

Indicates that the temperature was warmer than the average

Question 8

Negative Anomaly

Answer 8

Indicates the observed temperature was cooler than average

Question 9

Conservation Biology

Answer 9

A goal-oriented science that seeks to understand and counter the loss of biodiversity

Question 10

Movement corridors

Answer 10

A narrow strip or series of clumps of high quality habitat that connects isolated patches

Question 11

Biodiversity hotspot

Answer 11

Is a small area with many endemic species

Question 12

Endemic species

Answer 12

A species that is found in one place and nowhere else

Question 13

SLoSS

Single Large or Several Small

Answer 13

Large: Provides habitat for more species, with large ranges, minimizes edge effects
Small: Provides a wider varity of habitats, may sustain more populations of rare species, density independent events have less change of wiping out a population

Question 14

Ecological restoration

Answer 14

The science of using ecological principles to return degraded areas to their natural state