BIOA02H3 Lecture Notes - Conservation Biology, Habitat Destruction, Species Richness
9 Dec 2012
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Conservation biology: an applied scientific discipline devoted to preserving the diversity of life on. Human interference with different habitats and ecosystems have greatly increased the rate of extinction. The embracing of certain values and the application of the scientific method in order to achieve these values. Although the processes of species extinction is a natural one, which has been done for millions of years, conservation biology aims to prevent the extinction of animals. We do not know how many species live on earth. We do not know where many species live. We do not know what will happen in the future. It is difficult to determine when a species becomes extinct. However there are ways of estimating when extinctions will occurs, such as: A well established mathematical relationship between the size of and area and the number of species that live there.
