BIOL1007 Lecture Notes - Lecture 25: Christmas Island Pipistrelle, Southern Australia, Coextinction
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Paradigms for conservation biology: there are three areas: natural sciences, conservation biology and social sciences + humanities, these show that all areas of the world are responsible for the conservation of the environment. The (cid:858)e(cid:448)il quartet(cid:859) alien species; overhunting; habitat loss; co-extinction: based on the four horsemen of the apocalypse harbingers of the last judgement (new. Lecture 7: conservation: australia has 56 introduced species of vertebrates. Invasion deliberate introductions: acclimatisation societies comfort/familiarity, ornamentals, agricultural, domestics, biological control. Lecture 7: conservation: cassowaries are only vector of large rainforest fruits their decline puts these fruits at risk. Loss of (cid:858)e(cid:374)gi(cid:374)eer(cid:859) spe(cid:272)ies fro(cid:373) australia(cid:859)s ra(cid:374)gela(cid:374)ds: parasites and hosts, passenger pigeon once most numerous bird on the planet > 5 billion birds, hunted to extinction in usa, co-extinction of 2 species of bird louse: Last individual died alone at the cincinnati zoo at 1pm on september 1, 1914. Columbicola extinctus was rediscovered on the extant band-tailed pigeon.
