BIOL 2101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Defaunation, Restoration Ecology, Overexploitation

• School: University of Windsor
• Department: Biological Sciences
• Course: BIOL 2101
• Professor: Dr. Trevor Pitcher

Document Summary

Conservation translocation: (cid:862)deli(cid:271)erate a(cid:374)d (cid:373)ediated (cid:373)o(cid:448)e(cid:373)e(cid:374)t of orga(cid:374)is(cid:373)s, fro(cid:373) a(cid:374)y sour(cid:272)e, captive or wild, fro(cid:373) o(cid:374)e area to free release i(cid:374) a(cid:374)other(cid:863) Process of releasing a species back to where it historically occurred but has been extirpated. Re-establish self-sustaining population (with limited or no intervention) (cid:862)radi(cid:272)al(cid:863)- pushes line backwards by bringing species back to landscape. Wild e z i z i s l n o i t a u p o. Idealized reintroduced population: overharvesting, habitat deprivation, pollution and invasive species all cause a decline of wild population, sake a sample from a large source population(s) to create a founding captive population. Not a substitute for addressing factors that resulted in the decline of the species in the wild. Ecology: the study of relationships of organisms and their environment. Ernst haeckel coined the term in 1869 (oikos= home, logos= study of) Ecology is separate from natural history (the descriptive study of organisms in their wild habitats; no scientific method involved)