Habitat Destruction & Fragmentation
The habitat most impacted by overfishing, pollution, and invasive species
What are coral reefs?
Polymer material that doesn't biodegrade, instead is an entanglement risk that can be ingested by animals
What are plastics?
Recent Zoonotic disease that arose in the 2020s, which is theorized to have arose in animals before spreading to humans
What is COVID-19?
The most traded animal in the illegal wildlife trade for their medicinal properties, meat, or scales
What are pangolins?
The birds released into Central Park to remind people of Europe, to make the area "familiar"
The external factors that impact habitat fragments such as wind, drought, fire, and light
What are edge effects?
The cause of dense plant growth that "chokes out" marine life through the depletion of oxygen
What is eutrophication?
The meat of wild animals (usually tropical/rural areas) which may transmit diseases
What is bush meat?
The theory which is the basis for sustainable harvesting
What is maximum sustainable yield (MSY)?
The hypothesis that states invasive animals dominate a habitat due to the absence of their natural predator
What is predator release hypothesis?
An animal that can't jump over boundaries/fences, which impact their migration
What are Pronghorn?
As you move up a tropic level, concentration of pesticides gets worse
What is biomagnification or bioaccumulation?
The transmission of new pathogens from domestic animals to wildlife
What is proximity to humans?
Major source of funding for wildlife management and conservation
What is recreational hunting?
The cause of Purple Loosestrife and Zebra Mussels becoming invasive species
What is accidental transport through ship ballast water?
(One of) the most economically important habitat types threatened by habitat destruction
What are mangroves?
Chemicals that disrupt endocrine systems and cause stress
What are PPCPs?
What are Tasmanian Devils?
Global treaty that protects plant/animal species in trade by using a rating of Appendix I-III
What is CITES?
The 3 examples of cultivation from which species invasions can occur
What is agriculture, horticulture, and aquaculture?
The effects of palm oil production
What is unregulated deforestation in Malaysia/Indonesia, slash and burn pollution, and monoculture?
The release of nitrogen and sulfur oxides into the air that lowers the pH of rain which leaches soil nutrients and increases acidity of bodies of water
What is acid rain?
An animal impacted by White Nose Syndrome: a fungus that disrupts hibernation and causes starvation/dehydration
What are North American bats?
Non-consumptive exploitation that still causes stress, disturbance, or reduction in fitness to wildlife
What is recreational exploitation?
The type of intentional introduction that caused Mongoose in Hawaii to dominate native species
What is biological control?