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Methods Of Conserving Biodiversity Flashcards

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Methods of conservation biodiversity

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1 LEGISLATION 
Legal protection of habitats and species
Trade controls
         \+ CITIES 
2 ORGANISATIONS which aim achieve sustainable exploitation 
         \+IWC
         \+EU CFP
         \+ ITTO
3 CAPTIVE BREEDING PROGRAMMES 
4 RELEASE PROGRAMMES
5 SEED BANKS
6 HABITAT CONSERVATION 
          \+ land ownership 
           \+ designated protected areas 
            \+ voluntary Agri-environmental 
7 HABITAT CREATION AND MANAGEMENT 
8 UNINTENTIONAL HABITAT CREATION 
9 INTENTIONAL HABITATS CREATION 10 HABITAT DESIGN 
11 PROVISION OF ABIOTIC HABITAT
12 PROVISION OF BIOTIC HABITAT FEATURES
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LEGISLATION/ PROTOCOLS

Legal protection of habitats and species

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Legal protection of habitats and species
Wildlife and countryside act (1981) covers
+ SSSIs and Marine conservation zones
+ protect birds and their habitats
+ protects mammals and their sets
+ uprooting wild plants illegal
+ bats
Legal designation of protected areas protect habitats and species
+ protect species, habitat, restrict activity in and around protected area and management agreement w land owners and organisations, access restrictions and international coop
Protected areas in UK for wildlife conservation
+ SSSIs
+ NNR
+ SAC
+ SPA
+ Natura 2000
+ Ramsay site
+ MNR
LNR
MPA
MCZ

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LEGISLATION AND PROTOCOLS

Trade controls

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CITES
Appendix I - species threatened w extinction - all international trade banned except for conservation eg blue whales
Appendix II - species that may b threatened w extinction if trade not closely controlled- trade permitted where species relatively well protected eg. Honduras mahogany

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ORGANISATION AIM for sustainable exploitation

IWC
What is
Conserve whale stocks by (5)
3 exceptions

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IWC
Commercial Whaling banned since 1986 - aim conserve whale stocks by
     \+ total protection certain specie
     \+ designated whale sanctuary 
      \+ limit no. and size whale taken
      \+ protect suckling mothers and their calves
      \+ research whales
Whaling can take place for 3 resons
     - aboriginal subsistence
     - scientific whaling
     - Iceland and Norway get own quota
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ORGANISATION AIM for sustainable exploitation

EU CFP

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Env. Econ, social sust. And provide healthy food source by:

  • catch quotas
  • size limits
  • net mesh size
  • limits fishing efforts
  • ban discarding unwanted fishing efforts
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ORGANISATION AIM for sustainable exploitation ITTO

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Sust. Management tropical forests

1990 members aimed to for International trade of tropical timber to b sust. By 2000 - limited success

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CAPTIVE BREEDING PROGRAMMES

Joe decide which species to keep ex-situ

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Exsitu

More species that need ex-situ then capacity so decide by:

  • wild pop threatened
  • genetically diverse captive pop
  • in-situ success?
  • realistic time ex-situ
  • will release into wild b successful now or in future
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CAPTIVE BREEDING PROGRAMMES

Keeping species in captivity difficult because

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  • habitat size
  • food requirements
  • species interrelationships
  • financial constraints
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Factors that inhibit success of captive breeding

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1 Conditions for breeding - day length, light levels, temp, amount food - body fat
2 population interactions and breeding success - couples separate isolation from singles- affect breeding success or some may require choice of partner
3 breeding habitat eg flamingo mirrors
4 gene pool size
5 hybridisation - esp. w plants risk

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Captive breeding

Methods of increasing breeding success (5)

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1 Cryopreservation - freezing gametes for future programmes- transported easy - parents don’t have to meet
2 AI 1 - semen collected and inserted
Semen stored long time, transported w out moving animals, mating can b dangerous lead to death and potential partners may not accept each other.
3 Embryo transfer - if limited no. Females to reduce time embryos transferred to similar specie female
Female endangered specie treated w hormones - ovulated lots of eggs, washed out uterus and fertilised w sperm- embryos emplaned into female of more common species, eggs produced often from og female - lots offspring
4 micro-propagation of plants - tissue culture many cluster of plant produce from single parent and cultivated all genetically identical
5 cloning - limited success in livestock - nucleus from stem cell into empty egg cell which implanted into relatively closely related specie could be used w frozen stem cells when specie extinct
Important w plants - eg when specie threatened by hybrid plant

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RELEASE PROGRAMMES

Key features of successful release programmes

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No. Ind. sufficient to eat. Viable pop.
Suitable release sites must provide:
- large enough suitable habitat
- reliable food supplies 
-low predation risk
-suitable breeding sites
- water 
- support of local humans
- official support eg legal protection of habitat and species
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RELEASE PROGRAMMES

Post release support and monitoring

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Hard release - no post release support instictual behaviour don’t need learn survival skills
Soft release - gradual into larger areas , post release support - mammals birds

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RELEASE PROGRAMMES

Problems specie may face after release

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Finding/ recognising food
Recognising poisonous food
Dev. hunting skills
Recognising and avoiding predators 
Being accepted in wild pop. Social grps

Parents often also in captivity can’t teach skills
Monitoring movement ins. Help w future release programmes

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SEED BANKS

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Store seeds wild plants so spiecie not global extinct maintain genetic diversity if rare in wild
Stored bcus threatened of CWR
Millennium Swedbank 10,000 seeds each specie fridge underground reinforced vault

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HABITAT CONSERVATION

In situ

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Still living work condition appropriate and entire community of species present together
Eat. Protected area/ nature reserve easier prevent damaging influences w/in but doesn’t protect from ext. damaging influences ie air pollution

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HABITAT CONSERVATION

Three approaches

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Land ownership
Designated protected areas
Voluntary agri-env. Schemes

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Habitat conservation

Land ownership approach

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Per chase areas to protect species that live there or will once conditions changed e.g woodland trust, National trust, RSPB
Ind. land owners

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Habitat conservation

Designated protected areas‘s approach

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Legal status protec
Ensure habitat protected not reliant on land owner

SSSIs - UK legislation protect best egs of flora, fauna, geological or physiographical feats. - management plan agreed with owner and government conservation org. Informed if wish to carry out an OLD eg ploughing

NNR - uk legislationbest egs SSSIs complete communities

SACs - eu habitat directive - isn’t. Importance restriction on activities like drainage

SPAs - Eu birds directive - internationally important bird site

Ramsay site - international gov. Agreements protects wetlands - recognise wetlands ecosystems as v important for biodiversity conservation and wellbeing human communities

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Habitat conservation

Voluntary agri-environmental schemes approach

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Landowners require financial support and incentives to conserve habitats
UK farms need correct farming processes to conserve wild life
Pesticides, removal hedgerows and hay meadows ^ productivity
Schemes inc. Environmentally Sensitive Areas (ESA)
Countryside stewardship scheme (CSS)
Environmental Stewardship Scheme (ESS)
Countryside Stewardship (CS)

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Habitat conservation

Voluntary agri-environmental schemes approach

Aims of agri-env schemes

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  • Conserve biodiversity
  • Maintain and in Hance landscape quality and character
  • protect historic env
  • promote public access and understanding
  • protect natural resources
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Habitat conservation

Voluntary agri-environmental schemes approach

Annual payment of no. Pnts achieved env. Benefiting plan. Pnts awarded for:

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  • beetle banks
  • hedgerows, stonewalls, Ditch management
  • field buffer strips
  • wild bird seeds
  • low input grasslands
  • protected archeological sites
  • managed reduce soil erosion
  • protection infield trees
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Habitat conservation

Voluntary agri-environmental schemes approach

Higher payment plan for also doing following:

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Organic farms or farms w extra schemes like:

  • wildflower rich grass margins
  • unharvested conservation field headlands for winter Birdfood
  • restore were grassland for waders and wildfowl
  • winter meadow restoration
  • maintain/ restore salt marsh, sand dunes, hedgerows, Mooreland, traditional orchards, ponds, Woodlands
  • public access
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HABITAT CREATION AND MANAGEMENT

UNINTENTIONAL HABITAT CREATION

INTENTIONAL HAB

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  • important part env.management - unplanned part of other devs
  • human activities - new habitats for species to colonise eg. Reservoirs, sand and gravel pits, hedgerows , ornamental gardens.
  • In situ through creation/ alt. New habitat biotic and a biotic conditions.
    Species will then colonise (easier for birds/insects and if isolated habitat harder
    Eg wetland, wildflower meadow and artificial coral reef creation
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HABITAT DESIGN

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Once area selected abiotic and biotic feat. conditions to max. Suitablity for species to be supported

  • habitat area - support viable pop not so low that gene pool lost. area size depend on specie and territory
    Important right size as species may depend on pop size of specie eg enough trees to dupport monkey that eat fruit
    Some specie-benefit from small habitats - frogs newts etc
  • biological corridors - prevent loss genetic diversity allow recolonisation other areas and avoid hazards when specie moving
  • habitat shape - border habitats combo of neighbouring habitats important some species (core and edge habitat)
  • habitat diversity- local variation range of niches colonise area to which best adapted
  • light levels - eg fell some trees - ground plants
  • water depth - community varies dependent on depth , type of vegetation, nutrients absorbtion light levels anchorage important
  • vegetation age structure- woodlands old - variation of age clearings where dead old trees where young ones can grow 200 yrs - young forest canopy dense reduce biodiversity and wildlife value hard to create conditions of old forest. - felling and dead wood habitats can help
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PROVISION OF ABIOTIC HABITAT Feats

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Water - eg pond - drink, breed, aquatic habitat

Dissolved oxygen- lack turbulence low dissolved O- narrower river channel can ^ this- fish ie trout and insects eg may fly larvae need high dissolved O

Temp- dev of eggs - shallow h2o warm quicker fish eggs, tadpoles, frogs dev ^ where veg removed warm soil / sand lizard eggs

Light levels- plants specific light levels - dense tree canopy - chlorophyll red and blue light absorbed canopy already absorbed - ground veg struggle photosynthesise / survive
Forest floor plants additional pigments eg cartenoids absorb wavelengths that pass through canopy which protects them from direct sun light and damaging UV and high light levels

PH - plants can’t survive acidic souls few N fixing bacteria for plant growth - ones that survive acidic conditions lil competition even if small eg sundew
Many plants in acidic N deficient soils capture insects for nutrients
Low PH denature proteins and inhibit/ damage production Ca - based exoskeleton in crustaceans

Mineral nutrients - some plants need nutrient deficient soils where competition w taller plants for factors ie light aren’t able to compete in nutrient area - can remove top soil or not add fertilisers

Salinity - specific aquatic salinity eg opposum shrimp intertidal areas - controlling

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CONTROL OF BIOTIC HABITAT FEATS

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Food - eg bird species adapted find food and avoid inter-specie comp.

Control of predators- excluded or culled eg. Foxes excluded from bird nesting sites
Introduced predators no ind. mammal predators or comp. eg cats New Zealand

Control of competition eg remove invasive Himalayan balsam affect wild flowers and shades riverbanks out

Pollination- need insects - plants plants attract bees etc range plants different flowering times

Seed dispersal- eg African forest elephant, agouti

Control of pathogens - density dependent can remove weakest ind - natural selection or wipe out indigenous specie

Species reintroduction- possible reintroduce species where habitat changed by human activity- recreate natural conditions —-> succession
Non-flying animals have to b reintroduced esp. important w keystone species
Eg. Grey wolf Yellowstone - less deer, more trees, more beavers, more wetland habitat and species increased biodiversity
Eurasian otter, red kite UK
Intro can affect abiotic conditions esp. w trees - light., wind, humidity, nutrients

Control ecological succession and maintained plagioclimax
Sometimes succession change env for current species- activities produce semi natural habitat continue long time - considerd ‘natural’ many species may have inhabited this semi natural habitat meaning it has conservation value

Activities disturb climax community carried out reg New community of species develop - important for humans too eg grazed farmland, heathland, copiced woodland
Conservation of plagioclimax community involve traditional activities maintaining it often
- grazing - stop taller grass - chalk grassland flower rich meadows - trampling germination - dung invertebrates - different species for different plagioclimax habitats sheep shorter grasses invasive shrubs control, ponies selective graze avoid flowers eat invasive bracken, cattle talk rough grass
- mowing - similar to grazing as well as removing thorny , stingy bad tasting plants
- Burning - vegetation not eaten by grace and animals e.g. mature heather bushes or young trees on heathland - heather seeds lie dormant in soil until stimulated to germinate by heat of fire
- coppicing to ground level - rotational cycle each area every 8 yrs patchwork of ages each suitable different communities
- pollarding - cut so branches above deer / livestock

Population control of selected species - ^/ decrease release captive bred - ^ population and culling trapping or removal undesirable species

Restoration and maintenance of valuable habitat include removal of unwonted species even if part of ecological succession others may be invasive specie
Conifer plantations removed from new forest

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CONTROL OF BIOTIC HABITAT FEATURES

List (9)

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Food
Control of predation
Control of competitors
Pollination 
Seed dispersal 
Control of pathogens 
Species reintroduced
Control of ecological succession and maintaining plagioclimax 
           - grazing
           - mowing
           - burning
           - coppicing
           - pollarding
Population control

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