ENV221H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Minimum Viable Population, In Situ Conservation In India, Conservation Biology
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Lecture 19 biodiversity iii tutorial 4 next week: priceless or worthless, you decide. Assignment details in folder: essay assignment aiming to post marks and feedback by dec 3. Conservation biology: factors, forces, and processes that influence the loss, protection, and restoration of biological diversity, applied and goal oriented science to develop ways to protect biodiversity, works at multiple levels: Species level: genetics, e. g. how small can a population become before running running into problems problems. In situ conservation: preserving biodiversity in nature, on site conservation, i. e. protecting or rehabilitating sufficiently large areas of habitat to alleviate stressors impinging on populations . Ex situ conservation: conserving biodiversity in human controlled settings, captive breeding programs in zoos, aquaria aquaria, aviaries aviaries, botanical botanical gardens gardens and/or gene banks. Zoos , aquaria aquaria , botanical botanical gardens gardens. Captive breeding: expensive, difficult, may not work.
