BIOL 440 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Habitat Fragmentation, Hydrograph, Transpiration
Document Summary
Lecture 17: habitat fragmentation, urbanization, and sprawl: urbanization, urban population and urban land area coverage are growing urban populations globally, is now higher than the rural populations. Selecting the right mix of lid technologies that provide regionally tailored ratios of stormwater harvesting and infiltration. Integrate these lid technologies into next-generation drainage systems. Maximize potential co-benefits including water supply augmentation, flood protection, improved water quality, and urban amenities. Reduction in the total area of the habitat. Isolation of one habitat fragment from other areas of habitat. Breaking up of one patch of habitat into several smaller patches. Decrease in the average size of each patch of habitat: 20% of world"s remaining forest is within 100 m of an edge. In close proximity to agricultural, urban, or other modified environments where impacts on forest ecosystems are most severe: more difficult to cope, effect sizes of fragmentation effects, delayed effects of fragmentation on ecosystem degradation.
