SOC254 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Ecosystem Diversity, Conservation Biology, Microorganism
12 Nov 2018
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The successful career" of a global environmental problem", environmental sociology, 3rd edn. , new. Biodiversity exists at three distinct levels: ecosystem diversity. The variety of habitats that host living organisms in a particular geographic region. Variety is shrinking due to accelerated economic development. Variety of species found in an ecosystem. Current loss is unprecedented in the history of humankind: genetic diversity. Range of genetic information coded in the dna of a single population species. Basis for permitting organisms to adapt to environmental change. : wild strains of plants are more resistant to domesticated. There were three major developments that set the stage for the rise of biodiversity loss as a major environmental problem: importance of biotechnology. Patenting of a genetically engineered microbe cooperation among nations in conserving biological diversity. Established epistemic networks of research, communication, and coordination. The issue of biodiversity loss has developed in the context of a steady outpouring of studies that have cumulatively raised the alarm.
