Biodiversity 2
Terms
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- Monoculture
- the cultivation of a single crop on a farm or in a region or country
- Restoration
- an act of restoring
- Factors causing a decrease in biodiversity
- Hunting, poaching, habitat destruction
- Endangered species act
- 1973 act of u.s. congress desinged to protect any plant or animal species in danger of species
- native species
- as opposed to exotic species native spescies is one original to a particular rgion
- captive breeding
- breeding endangered or threatened species in zoos and wild animal parks
- endangered species
- a species whos numberes have fallen so low that it is likely to become extict in the near future
- Keystone species
- species of great importance to an ecosystem because its loss might cause the complete collapse of the ecosystem
- threatened species
- species likely to become endangered if protective measures are not taken immeadatily
- Botanical gardens
- storehouses od genitic diversity
- Germ plasma bank
- Store germ plasma for future use in case species become critically endangered
- Exotic species
- a species that is not native to a particular region
- Poachin
- ilegal hunting
- Biodiversity
- numberes and variteies of species on earth
- reintroduction
- Returning a species to an area in which it was once native
- Indigenouse species
- native species
- factors causing an increase in biodiversity
- Reintroductioin, speciation, extic species