Extinction
These species are found only in a single geographic range.
What are endemic species?
Nontarget organisms that are caught and killed unintentionally during large-scale fishing operations.
What is bycatch?
Removal of this habitat is happening largely because of the shrimp industry in some countries.
What are mangrove forests?
The process by which once fertile land becomes a desert.
What is desertification?
Open-access resources often leads to this.
What is the tragedy of the commons?
This is the current era we are in.
What is the anthropocene?
An international agreement to regulate trade of wild animals and plants.
What is CITES- the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora?
This is the main threat to habitats that affect endangered species.
What is agriculture?
This was the main pesticide highlighted in the book Silent Spring.
What is DDT?
The two categories of direct use values.
What are consumptive use value and productive use value?
What IUCN stands for.
What is International Union for Conservation of Nature?
The pangolin.
What is the most heavily trafficked wild mammal in the world?
This is what LSLS stands for.
What is Land Sparing versus Land Sharing?
This is what happens to most MSW.
What is "landfilled"?
The economic or social value of ecosystem goods or services that people derive from nature without the need to harvest, consume or destroy the resource.
What are indirect use values?
Approximately how much faster current human induced rates of extinction are now compared to background rates.
What is 100 times faster?
This plant is exploited more than most, with 50 million traded each year.
What are orchids?
Within metapopulations, these areas have excess production.
What are source habitats/patches?
Detergent metabolites, steroids and plasticizers.
What are the pollutants found in the highest concentration in water?
This is a more inclusive measure of how a country is doing than GDP.
What is GPI- Genuine Progress Indicator?
In this agreement, property owners voluntarily agree to manage lands/waters to remove threats to species that may become endangered.
What is CCAA- Candidate Conservation Agreement with Assurances?
The acronym for this is MSY.
What is maximum sustainable yield?
These are some of the changes in the forest edge microenvironment dye to edge effects.
What are more wind, drought, fire, light and nitrogen deposition?
The pollutants that are the precursors to acid rain.
What are NO2 and SO2?
Before it was killed by a trophy hunter, this particular animal used to attract many tourists and generate much revenue.
Who is Cecil the lion?