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Fig 55.1

Fig 55.1. Multiple levels of biodiversity. Ecosystem services: Pollination. Of the top 150 prescription drugs in US: 74% from Plants 18% from Fungi 5% from Bacteria 3% from Snakes. Fig 55.3. Ecosystem services: Drugs. Ecosystem services: Flood control.

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Fig 55.1

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  1. Fig 55.1 Multiple levels of biodiversity

  2. Ecosystem services: Pollination

  3. Of the top 150 prescription drugs in US: 74% from Plants 18% from Fungi 5% from Bacteria 3% from Snakes

  4. Fig 55.3 Ecosystem services: Drugs

  5. Ecosystem services: Flood control

  6. Ecosystem services: Erosion control

  7. When ecosystem services fail Photo A. Gutierrez, http://www.honduras.com/archive-photos/ag-nov98/disk06/mvc011f.jpg

  8. Ecosystem services: Clean air

  9. Biophilia

  10. Salmon in Columbia River (millions of pounds) 1874 1996 1963 Year

  11. Great Auk, 1844. Cause: hunting.

  12. Passenger pigeon, 1914 Cause: hunting, habitat loss.

  13. Carolina Parakeet, 1935 Cause: hunting, habitat loss.

  14. Ivory-billed woodpecker, 1940 Cause: habitat loss.

  15. Dusky Seaside Sparrow, 1987 Cause: habitat loss. Last captive birds died at Disney World.

  16. California Condor, 1983 http://www.lanecc.edu/science/russin.htm Cause: habitat loss, hunting. 20 remaining wild birds captured.

  17. Fig 55.6 Forest cover of Cadiz Township in Wisconsin

  18. Fig. 53.25 Species number increases with habitat area

  19. Fig 55.7 Introduced species

  20. Fire ant distribution

  21. Biodiversity crisis – the causes Human population increase Increased per capita resource use

  22. Fig 55.14 A case study: the red cockaded woodpecker

  23. Historical range of long-leaf pine forest and woodpecker

  24. Long-leaf pine ecosystem maintained by fire Fran James

  25. Good Red Cockaded Woodpecker habitat Fran James

  26. Chromatogaster ashmeadifavorite food of Red-Cockaded Woodpeckers Research in Review

  27. Ants live in galleries in bark of long-leaf pine

  28. Made by the larvae of this uncommon moth - Givira francesca

  29. Larval feeding by Givira

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