BISC 1112 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Phytophthora Infestans, Habitat Destruction, Pterois
15 May 2017
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Economic and ecological harm to the environment to be defined as invasive. Grows and forces them to come out during hibernation when there is no food so they starve to death but does not directly kill. Goals of conservation must be not to maintain stasis, but to conserve the ability of populations to respond to environmental change. Humans creating small forest fires to regenerate new ecology. Wild potato (solanum demissum) contained resistance genes against potato blight. Of pharmaceuticals derive from plant defensive compounds. Species whose presence or activities are critical to the structure or the function of the community. Species whose status provides information on the overall condition. Species that attract public empathy= charismatic mega vertebrates that enable an emotional connection rarely plants or invertebrates. Species that require large blocks of natural or unaltered habitat to maintain viable populations. Protecting them also protects the many other species utilizing the same habitat. Areas that are essential to conservation of the species.
