BIOLOGY 1AL Chapter Notes - Chapter 56: Biomagnification, Sustainable Development, Habitat Fragmentation
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Other species also provide humans with food, fiber, medicines, and ecosystem services: four major threats to biodiversity are habitat loss, introduced species, overharvesting, and global change. It follows a step-by-step conservation strategy: conserving species often require resolving conflicts between the habitat needs of endangered species and human demands, threatened species are those considered likely to become endangered in near future, ecosystem diversity. If lose diversity, can lose genetic resources that could be used to improve crop qualities, such as disease resistance: ecosystem services encompass all processes through which natural. Landscape and regional conservation help sustain biodiversity ecosystems help sustain human life: structure landscape can strongly influence biodiversity. As habitat fragmentation increases and edges become more extensive, biodiversity tends to decrease. Earth is changing rapidly as a result of human actions: agriculture removes plant nutrients from ecosystems, so large supplements are required.
