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CONSERVATION BIOLOGY

CONSERVATION BIOLOGY. UNIT: Our resources under pressure… What’s happening?. BELL RINGER #1. OUR UNIT TITLE IS- Our world resources under pressure. What do we mean by this? And, what resources are we talking about? Air Water Forests Land Biodiversity. WARM UP .

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CONSERVATION BIOLOGY

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  1. CONSERVATION BIOLOGY UNIT: Our resources under pressure… What’s happening?

  2. BELL RINGER #1 • OUR UNIT TITLE IS- Our world resources under pressure. What do we mean by this? And, what resources are we talking about? • Air • Water • Forests • Land • Biodiversity

  3. WARM UP  • WHAT IS BIODIVERSITY? • Biodiversity is the sum total of the variety of organisms in the biosphere • PEOPLE TALK ABOUT: • Ecosystem diversity • Species diversity • Genetic diversity

  4. A

  5. BLUE WHALE (Balaenoptera musculus)

  6. Manatee, West Indian (Trichechus manatus)

  7. RED WOLF (Canis lupus)

  8. BALD EAGLE (Haliaeetus leucocephalus)

  9. B

  10. NIANGUA DARTER (Etheostoma nianguae)

  11. NORTHERN LEOPARD FROG (Rana pipiens)

  12. GREATER PRARIE CHICKEN (Tympanuchus cupido)

  13. HEIN’S EMERALD DRAGON FLY (Somatoclora hineana)

  14. C

  15. PACIFIC YEW (Taxus brevifolia)

  16. ROSY-PERIWINKLE (Catharantus roseus)

  17. PIT VIPER

  18. FUNGUS P. (Penicillum spp)

  19. D

  20. A

  21. B

  22. C

  23. The human footprint & Last of the Wild in Madagascar An example By: Jose I. Pareja Sep, 2004

  24. E

  25. F

  26. FACTS ABOUT:Biodiversity ε Extinctions • Extinction occurs when there are no longer any living individuals of a species left. • There have been five periods of mass extinction's on earth 440m, 370m, 250m, 210m and 65m years ago. • Scientists estimate that currently, living organisms represent only 1% of all the species that have ever been (i.e. 99% have been and gone) • We are in a sixth period caused not by meteorites or deep ice ages, but by human resource uses - this process is super fast in contrast to all past experiences.

  27. TWO QUESTIONS TO KEEP IN MIND 1) WHY IS BIODIVERSITY USEFUL?2) WHY SHOULD WE CARE ABOUT IT?

  28. Ecosystem Diversity Equator WWF- 827 Terrestrial Ecoregion

  29. Species Diversity WWF- Species Database~450/827 Ecoregion’s in the Tropics

  30. Table 1.1 Estimated numbers of described species, and possible global total. http://www.biodiv.org/gbo/chap-01/chap-01.asp CONVENTION ON BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY: Source: UNEP-WCMC, adapted from tables 3.1-1 and 3.1-2 of the Global Biodiversity Assessment

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