Ecosystem Services
- What are the types of ecosystem services? How does this relate to biodiversity
- Know the example about Vulture populations in India
- What is the relationship between ecosystems and infectious disease?
- Global Status Trend of degradation & economic loss
- Why is ecosystem protection an issue of social justice?
- How is ecosystem degradation associated with human well being?
- What are the arguments for protecting biodiversity?
- Consequences for the loss of an individual species? Know the oyster example.
Protected Areas
- Know the Yosemite/Hetch Hetchy story
- Who were the main people involved in the debate?
- What is the definition of a protected area?
- Know the history of protected lands worldwide, and here in the U.S.
- What are the commonly-held assumptions about protected lands?
- What are the three environmental worldviews presented in class?
- What is a social construct? What does it mean to say that nature is social constructed?
- Are humans part of nature?
- What are the consequences to conservation of removing access to protected lands?
- What is a paper park?
Small Populations
- Know the history of mountain lions in North America, specifically the remnant population in Florida.
- What is demographic stochasticity? Know the lion example.
- What is environmental stochasticity? \
- What is the allee effect
- What are the conservation consequences of genetic problems?
- How do we measure genetic diversity?
- What are the forces that impact genetic diversity in small populations?
- What is an ideal population
- What is inbreeding? How does this differ from inbreeding depression?
- Why are subspecies important to conservation?
- What is conservation reliance
- Understand the vortex of risk factors
Also, review materials from the discussions about grizzly bears, and infectious disease, as well as the Excel tutorial.