GEOG 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 30: Understory, Overfishing, Common Fisheries Policy
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In shared resorce like cod stocks capitalist pattern, wealth accumulation over environmental sustainability. Minimum mesh size for trawl nets --. Would allow for the smaller organisms to escape as opposed to being trapped and bi- catch/waste. Reduction in total allowable catch (i. e. quota system) Significant where fish spawn and how will they reproduce if take. 31% of the earths land area (4 bilion hectrares), nearly a third. Russia 809 million, na 677 million, australia, japan and new zealand 197 million, Eu 193 million hectares, (know which one the largest) Diverse flora and fauna (most in the world) Mid-latitude forests (b/w the equator and the poles) Biological diversity diverse forest layers provide micro-habitats for a diverse range of plants and animals: Canopy, sub-canopy, understory, shrub layer, forest floor soul. 2. 3% of the planet"s land surface is home to 50% of the world"s plant species and. Carbon storage world"s most important land-based carbon systems.