ENV100Y5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Lake Baikal, Great Slave Lake, Handia (Drink)
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How do we measure biodiversity: abstract concept which we need to have some way to evaluate. What is the current status of biodiversity: how to protect because its not good. Biodiversity is a value because it provides goods and services: Not all ecosystems are the same in biodiversity. Idea is that every ecosystem is unique when we start taking species out of ecosystems, it represents a lack of a healthy ecosystem. Plants: in response to herbivory, they produce: cyanide, caffeine, cocaine, mescaline, nicotine, atropine, strychnine, morphine, quinine, codeine, digitalis, & many more. November 23rd 25th 2016 (cid:858)touris(cid:373) dire(cid:272)ted to(cid:449)ard e(cid:454)oti(cid:272) often threatened, natural environments, especially to support (cid:272)o(cid:374)ser(cid:448)atio(cid:374) efforts a(cid:374)d o(cid:271)ser(cid:448)e (cid:449)ildlife(cid:859) Idea of when we preserve biodiversity, this is what people come to see as tourists. Incentive to preserve natural areas and reduce impacts on the landscape and on native species provides a lot of economic value.