What 3 primary strategies can be used to maintain biodiversity? Explain how they work.

Reading Assignment #3

 

Read Chapters 8 and 9 in the Essential Environment to answer the following questions:

1) 2 pts. What is biodiversity? Provide 3 examples of ecosystem services that are primarily the result of biodiversity.

2) 2 pts. What 3 primary strategies can be used to maintain biodiversity? Explain how they work.

3) 1 pt. What are the characteristics of species that most easily survive human disturbances?

4) 2 pt. What are the ecosystem services provided by forests? Are there components to these aspects of forest ecosystems that are composed of more than a large population of trees? Explain clearly.

 5) 1 pt. Why do primary forests contain more biodiversity than secondary forests?

6) 1 pt. How do forests and reforestation help mitigate climate change? Explain why forests matter when addressing climate change.

7) 1 pt. Current climate negotiations include programs such as REDD and REDD+. Explain what these programs are, and how they are supposed to work.