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Lecture 1
Define biodiversity,
What is meant by background rates...,
From fossil records phylogenies a...
31  cards
Lecture 20
How many are there on average chi...,
Which are the countries with the ...,
What is the mean world population...
18  cards
Lecture 19
What controls diversity,
Are environments with low or high...,
What does adding fertiliser do
25  cards
Lecture 18
What are biodiversity hotspots an...,
Describe the early spread of mammals,
Why does australia and s america ...
30  cards
Lecture 17
What are methods for linking past...,
When linking past climates to bio...,
Explain permafrost what is it a g...
28  cards
Lecture 16
When were the mass extinctions,
What caused the previous mass ext...,
Which mass extinction was the big...
25  cards
Lecture 15?
Why can t we be more accurate abo...,
Why should we care about biodiver...,
What provisions does biodiversity...
47  cards
Lecture 14
Define ex situ species conservation,
Give two examples of ex situ cons...,
Explain how captive breeding prog...
24  cards
Lecture 13
What is in situ conservation and ...,
The point of a protected area is ...,
Is the protected area coverage gl...
36  cards
Lecture 12
What is a community level,
What is a direct interaction betw...,
Describe an indirect interaction ...
35  cards
Lecture 11
Give the formal definition of int...,
Give some basic types in interact...,
What are true predators
27  cards
Lecture 10
What is mortality,
Pearl 1928 argued that there were...,
What do mortality survivorship cu...
17  cards
Lecture 9
The process of interaction betwee...,
What effect do the interactions b...,
What is commensalism
19  cards
Lecture 8
Give some examples of area based ...,
What are the two techniques to es...,
It is hard for biologists to coun...
18  cards
Lecture 7
Define ecology,
Define species,
What is the biological species co...
19  cards
Lecture 6
What is an ecological scale,
What does the ecological scale de...,
If you look at a very large spati...
43  cards
Lecture 5
What is ex with conservation,
Give 2 examples of ex situ specie...,
What are captive breeding program...
24  cards
Lecture 4
What is in situ conservation and ...,
Is the protected area coverage in...,
Since the status 2014 how many km...
30  cards
Lecture 3
What are the patterns of island b...,
What are the processes of island ...,
When is immigration rate higher
39  cards
Lecture 2
What does iucn stand for,
What is in the iucn conservation ...,
In the red list of threatened spe...
34  cards

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