[EEB215H1] - Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam (36 pages long!)
5 Oct 2016
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Biodiversity: biological diversity, different plants, animals and geo features that all coexist together. Ecosystem services: the resources or the mechanisms that the natural world produces and what it gives us as humans, benefits we enjoy that come from the natural environment. Tragedy of the commons: common resource that"s used or overused until becomes depleted, public, not private. Sustainability: the ability of current people to meet their current needs without jeopardizing resources to that they will keep giving and giving into the future. Stakeholders: a group of individuals or an individual that want to have control over a particular resource, people who have a say in the. Like to eat crabs and other small animals. Will not be required to remember the scientific name for exam. Before european settlement they were at 10,000. Some people decided to do something to mitigate: restoration projects, captive breeding.
