Biological Diversity
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- 4 reasons for decline in biological diversity
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1 - species into
2 - pollution
3 - habitat alteration
4 - hunting - What did endangered species act do?
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- created list for endangered/threatened
- protects critical habitat
- creates/implements recovery plan - intrinsic value
- species are good for their own sake
- instrumental value
- species are good for humans
- 5 major kingdoms
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Monera
Protista
Myceta
Plantae
Animalia - Why is preservation of bio diversity important?
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- keystone species
- predators maintain population equilibrium
- partners to maintain elaborate food chains/webs -
example of species into
(decrease in bio diversity) - gypsy moth
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example of pollution
(decrease in bio diversity) - mercury pollution and decline of Indiana cave bat
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example of habitat alteration
(decrease in bio diversity) - loss of suitable habitat
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example of hunting
(decrease in bio diversity) - passenger pigeon
- 4 values of wild species
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1 - agriculture
2 - medicine
3 - recreation
4 - intrinsic - definition of biological diversity
- diversity of living things found in natural world
- Lacey Act
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Nation's 1st wildlife protection law :
prompted by concern about interstate profits from illegally taken game - Candidate species
- substantial info to support listing, but no funding
- Threatened
- Likely to become endangered
- Critical Habitat
- geographic area with features essential to preservation
- Extinction
- complete loss
- Extripated
- no longer exitst in a part of its range but may exist elsewhere - may be recovered if critical habitat is restored
- Biological assesment
- Agency proposing land management project must outline impact to species - reviwed by US Fish/Wildlife to determine
- Monera
- single-cell prokaryote (bacteria)
- Protista
- single cell eukaryote (algae)
- Mycetae
- multi cell absorbative heterotroph (mushroom)
- Plantae
- multi cell autotroph
- Anamalia
- multi cell heterotroph
- 2 in muskingum county that are on ESA
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endangered - indiana bat
threatened - bald eagle