Geography 2156B Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Herbivore, Keystone Species
8 Mar 2020
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Feb 12 some fuzziness around number of 12-15: but no where near enough any hope of maintaining biodiversity is 33% expand habitats esp for large animals. **parks alone cannot save top predators and herbivores: most parks have lost some of their species since their founding. The loss of ecological change is not in one direction. Argument of reintroduction of carnivores can hav effects way beyond their immediate effects. In terms of political dimensions of rewilding and connectivity: this part of the continent is where there"s considerable momentum, where the distribution of carnivores and large herbivores are the greatest, stretching from yellowstone and stretching into alaska. Increasing tracking beyond parks: we"ve been tracking on huge herbivores like elephants. There needs to be bigger parks with more connectivity: what are other possible corridors for preserving wildlife, need to protect the grasslands too. Inspired by y to y, some conservation activists have argued that we should think of corridors btwn.
