Threats to biodiversity
Habitat loss, pollution, and overharvesting are examples of this kind of extinction cause.
What is "Anthropogenic"?
This feedback loop occurs when melting ice causes more warming
What is a "Positive feedback loop"?
The natural ecosystems that help with environmental conditions.
What is "regulating services"?
A species that could become endangered in the near future.
What are "Threatened species"?
This type of fragmentation occurs when roads or farms divide ecosystems.
What is "Habitat fragmentation"?
This effect describes gases trapping heat in the atmosphere
What is the "Greenhouse effect"?
Goods that humans can use directly from ecosystems.(Example:Medicinal plants)
What are "Provisioning services"?
Independent of their benefit to humans.
What is "Intrinsic value"?
This process removes large areas of forest, reducing biodiversity.
What is "Deforestation"?
This gas is produced by burning fossil fuels, is the main driver of recent global change
What is "Carbon dioxide(CO2)"?
Pollination of food crops by native species bees, insects, birds,and bats.
What are "Supporting services"?
A loss of genetic variation can mean lower chances of adapting to changing environmental conditions or resisting diseases.
What is "Genetic diversity"?
The species that go first when ecosystems collapse are...
What are "Indicator species"?
Decreasing pH of ocean waters due to absorption of excess atmospheric CO2 from the burning of fossil fuels
What is "Ocean acidification"?
Areas where land and water meet characterized by soil saturated with water and plants, it can help reduce floods and increase biodiversity.
What are "Wetlands"?
Habitat loss, invasive species, population growth, pollution, over harvesting, climate change
What is "HIPPO-C"?
This theory explains how large islands closer to the mainland have more biodiversity due to immigration-extinction balance.
What is "Island Biogeography Theory"?
These frozen areas are melting and releasing methane
What is "Permafrost"?
Biogeochemical cycling of essential elements through abiotic and biotic compartments in an ecosystem, involving complex interactions among the atmosphere.
What is "Nutrient cycling"?
Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species. Controls Trade of threatened plants and animals.
What is "CITES"?