Rewilding/paleoecology

Question 1

rewilding

Answer 1

restoration of ecosystems (releasing from human control/restoring species interactions etc), long term management, need to think of core areas/corridors/carnivores

Question 2

aims of rewilding

Answer 2

optimism, involve communities

Question 3

example

Answer 3

knepp wildland, pigs/deer graze and maintain grassland, no predators so controlled by selling meat (some people may not like it)

Question 4

passive rewilding

Answer 4

happens by accident

Question 5

rewilding UK

Answer 5

local recovery scheme which rewards landowners for restoring nature, aims to restore 10,000 nature but land owners may take money and not fully restore

Question 6

paleoecology

Answer 6

study of past ecology/ecosystems to see how climate changed/if species are invasive/how species have moved

Question 7

ways to study past

Answer 7

anoxic environments which have plants/pollen, sediment cores

Question 8

pollen, proxy

Answer 8

shows past vegetation

Question 9

proxy

Answer 9

indirect measure of past climate, found in sediment cores

Question 10

fungi spores, proxy

Answer 10

some live on animal dung so tells about abundance (coprophilous)

Question 11

charcoal, proxy

Answer 11

tells about fires

Question 12

diatoms, proxy

Answer 12

tells about salinity/acidity

Question 13

what do all proxies follow

Answer 13

principle of uniformitarism, things today are same as before

Question 14

biases

Answer 14

wind blown pollen dominates insect pollinated pollen in fossil record, pollen may travel far