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Sustaining Terrestrial Biodiversity

Sustaining Terrestrial Biodiversity. Biodiversity in Indonesia. 18,000+ islands 6,000 inhabited Land being cleared by illegal logging and conversion to palm oil plantations Estimated %50 of forests cleared %70 mangrove forests. Home to 129 active volcanoes, most of any nation

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Sustaining Terrestrial Biodiversity

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  1. Sustaining Terrestrial Biodiversity

  2. Biodiversity in Indonesia 18,000+ islands 6,000 inhabited Land being cleared by illegal logging and conversion to palm oil plantations Estimated %50 of forests cleared %70 mangrove forests

  3. Home to 129 active volcanoes, most of any nation Javan tiger probably extinct, Sumatra tiger fighting for survival

  4. Almost extinct in 1974, listed as protected and endangered 41 animals reintroduced into their former habitat in Yellowstone National Park 2007- about 171 gray wolves in the park Fig. 10-1, p. 214

  5. Old growth forest in Washington’s Olympic National Forest Fig. 10-2a, p. 216

  6. Old growth tropical rain forest in Queensland, Australia Fig. 10-2b, p. 216

  7. Fig. 10-3a, p. 216

  8. Fig. 10-3b, p. 216

  9. Fig. 10-4, p. 217

  10. Fragmentation Cleared plots for grazing Highway New highway Cleared plots for agriculture Old growth Fig. 10-5, p. 218

  11. (a) Selective cutting Clear stream Fig. 10-6a, p. 219

  12. (b) Clear-cutting Muddy stream Fig. 10-6b, p. 219

  13. (c) Strip cutting Uncut Cut 1 year ago Dirt road Cut 3–10 years ago Uncut Clear stream Fig. 10-6c, p. 219

  14. (a) Selective cutting (b) Clear-cutting Clear stream Muddy stream Uncut (c) Strip cutting Cut 1 year ago Dirt road Cut 3–10 years ago Uncut Clear stream Stepped Art Fig. 10-6a, p. 219

  15. Clear cutting in Washington Fig. 10-7, p. 219

  16. Fig. 10-8, p. 220

  17. Tropical deforestation, Thailand Fig. 10-11, p. 222

  18. Amazon forest, Brazil 1975 Fig. 10-13a, p. 224

  19. 2001 Fig. 10-13b, p. 224

  20. Endangered white ukari Lives in tropical forests of Brazil Fig. 10-14a, p. 224

  21. Fig. 10-12, p. 223

  22. Fig. 10-9a, p. 220

  23. White pine blister rust Pine shoot beetle Beech bark disease Sudden oak death Hemlock woolly adelgid Fig. 10-10, p. 221

  24. Fig. 10-15, p. 225

  25. Burning for agriculture and livestock use Fig. 10-16, p. 226

  26. Fig. 10-17, p. 227

  27. Kenaf, used for making paper Sustainable replacement for using old growth forests to make paper Fig. 10-18, p. 229

  28. Fig. 10-19, p. 231

  29. Fig. 10-20, p. 232

  30. San Pedros river Arizona Fig. 10-21a, p. 233

  31. 10 yrs later Fig. 10-21b, p. 233

  32. Fig. 10-22, p. 234

  33. Fig. 10-26, p. 241

  34. Fig. 10-27, p. 241

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