Biodiversity crisis_Slides.pdf conservation biology

slides

1. BIO F314: Conservation Biology
Chapter 2 –Threats to Biological
Diversity

2. •Current extinction rates –100 to 1000 times
•Sixth extinction

3. •https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJK0geu
Rcps

4. •Hunting and bottleneck effect

6. •In recent past, amphibian extinction rate has
been among the highest.

8. •e.g. Gypsvulture decline from India –
consumption of the veterinary drug, diclofenac.

9. •https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jo0LTZQ3
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10. •The
IUCN Red List
is the world's most
comprehensive inventory of the global
conservation status of plant and animal
species. species.
•
www.iucnredlist.org
–Type in the name of the
desired animal and know all about it

11. •Island species and
competitors, predators,
diseases
•
Guns, Germs and Steel
•
Guns, Germs and Steel

12. Island biogeography model
(McArthur and Wilson)
•Large islands will have greater number of
species than small islands.

13. Beetle diversity

14. Galapagos island diversity
•https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Li9xo0mL
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16. •Floods in China linked to Cultural Revolution.

19. Proposed interlinking of rivers in India –An ambiti ous
Civil engineering project

20. River interlinking
•https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8wV1qK
N1oXc

21. Box 2.2 -Biodiversity loss in Orissa’s Chilkalake

24. Habitat fragmentation and seed dispersers •https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0m6AjW
Z2p8I&t=10s

25. •Choice of animals for meat consumption?

26. Bushmeatcrisis
•https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=56jJsHJFl
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27. Invasion by a wetland grass in N. America

28. Lantana camara
•
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o247mz0 5jj4

30. Managing invasive species
•https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lb7lo5Kf
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31. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2hkKjKrsLo