BIOL 3062 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Megabat, Late Harvest Wine, Restoration Ecology
1 May 2017
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Invasive species: brought in from somewhere else and out competes native species: endangered species: experiencing steep population declines and likely to become extinct, endemic species: natural to a specific location, only found in one particular geographic region/area. Conservation: need to understand population dynamics. Behavioural ecology: how behaviour relates to survival and reproduction. Reserve design: want to know and understand range and behaviour of an animal, how much it moves around and how it does so, need to understand species dispersal, most offspring widely disperse to avoid inbreeding. Biodiversity: high levels of endemism, lose those species, ca(cid:374)"t fi(cid:374)d the(cid:373) a(cid:374)y(cid:449)here else, ex. Dodo bird first time recognizing human driven extinction. Mauritius island: very heavily populated with lots of sugar cane and tea plantations, very little remaining natural forest, only 1-2% of total land cover considered good native forest. Introduced species: compete with native plants, reduced food and foraging habitat for animals.
