BIOL 1120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 25: Keystone Species, Habitat Destruction, Hectare
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Chapter 59: conservation biodiversity: conservation biology and biodiversity, ________________________ is a new discipline studying aspects of biodiversity in order to conserve natural resources, conservation biology involves both scientific concepts and their application to practical problems. Incorporates a number of interacting ecosystems within one landscape . Rivers, etc: fragmented landscapes reduce reproductive capacity, food availability, and affect seasonal behavior, distribution of biodiversity a. b. c. Biodiversity is not evenly distributed; saving some areas saves more species than saving others. Biodiversity is highest in the tropics and declines toward the poles on land, in fresh water, and in the ocean. Biodiversity frontiers such as the rain forest canopies and the deep sea benthos have more species than formerly suspected. 59. 6, p. 1261: most u. s. prescription drugs were originally derived from living organisms. a. The rosy periwinkle from madagascar provides chemicals that treat the two cancers: leukemia and.
