ENWC201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Florida Panther, Habitat Fragmentation, Urban Sprawl

• School: University of Delaware
• Department: Entomology and Wildlife Conservation
• Course: ENWC201
• Professor: Mc Carthy Kyle

Document Summary

Habitat degradation: can have many causes, livestock grazing (fencing out cattle from waterhole, invasive species, depleted food resources. Habitat loss: three types, urbanization, conversion, climate change, urbanization, urban sprawl: unplanned, uncontrolled spreading of urban development to areas adjoining edges of cities. Hard to tell where cities start and stop: conversion, when human activities transform one habitat type into another a. i. Management (i. e. damming or fire suppression: example 1: greater prairie chicken b. i. Wild bird that s supposed to exist in the prairie but we used prairies for agriculture so their range is only existent in a few pockets of the country: example 2: wetlands c. i. An area of land that is either saturated or flooded a majority of the time c. ii. Supports vegetation that can withstand an extremely moist environment c. iii. Food and energy for the entire ecosystem c. viii. More productive than most other land types c. ix.