BIODIVERSITY
1: What is biodiversity?
-Variation in ecosystems and life
2: What are we doing to decrease biodiversity? What is a monoculture?
-farming
-monoculture is when we are farming but we are only farming one thing in a large amount of area
3: How much of our planet’s species have been identified?
- less than half of the amount their actually is for example their might be 9 million species of insect but we only know a really small amount
4: What is a keystone species? What is an example? Why are they important?
-a keystone specie is the animals in a ecosystem that hold the ecosystem together and without it the environment will collaspe
-Jaguar is a keystone specie
-They serve as a control in most species
5: E.O. Wilson stated, “ The one process ongoing that will take millions of years to correct is the loss of genetic and species diversity by the destruction of natural habitats. This is the folly that our descendents are least likely to forgive us.” Discuss this statement. What is the #1 cause of species decline?
-This is a really strong statement which consist of the words that humans are really keystone species and we can make change either bad or good. The main and number one reason of decline is species is the destruction of natural habitats and the areas where animals live.
-Variation in ecosystems and life
2: What are we doing to decrease biodiversity? What is a monoculture?
-farming
-monoculture is when we are farming but we are only farming one thing in a large amount of area
3: How much of our planet’s species have been identified?
- less than half of the amount their actually is for example their might be 9 million species of insect but we only know a really small amount
4: What is a keystone species? What is an example? Why are they important?
-a keystone specie is the animals in a ecosystem that hold the ecosystem together and without it the environment will collaspe
-Jaguar is a keystone specie
-They serve as a control in most species
5: E.O. Wilson stated, “ The one process ongoing that will take millions of years to correct is the loss of genetic and species diversity by the destruction of natural habitats. This is the folly that our descendents are least likely to forgive us.” Discuss this statement. What is the #1 cause of species decline?
-This is a really strong statement which consist of the words that humans are really keystone species and we can make change either bad or good. The main and number one reason of decline is species is the destruction of natural habitats and the areas where animals live.