Biodiversity

One of the most intimidating tasks challenging an aspiring entomologist is the identification of species within a family as diverse as ground beetles (Choate, 2001). Ground beetles are one of the most diverse insect families in the word. They occur in apparently all terrestrial habitats and represent a major part of the invertebrate predator guild of the soil fauna, e.g. in forests, maquis and agrocoenoses (Arndt et al., 2011). Ground beetles are often chosen for study because they are abundant…

I plan to write about animal production because the issue of food and it’s ability to be sustainably produced is a current issue that I am interested in. This issue relates to sustainability because if food, live stock, is continually produced at the same rate resources like land, water, and air will be scarce and the damage that animal production will cause will be irreversible. I have applied the Twelve Tests of an Arguable Issue and have been able to answer yes to each question. I would…

2002; Hale et al. 2006; Nuzzo et al 2009; Maerz et al. 2009; Sutherland et al. 2011; Nuzzo et al. 2015). In 2011, Sunderland and coauthors identified earthworm invasions in previously earthworm free regions as one of the 15 most immerging issues of biodiversity conservation. One of the reason for the issue is that invasions by European earthworms, particularly species from Lumbricidae, have substantially altered plant population and community structure in temperate and boreal forests of northern…

CHAPTER TWO LITERATURE REVIEW 2.1 Basic Concepts of Land-Use and Land-Cover Change According to (FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization), 2000; Gregorio, 2005) land cover refers to the biophysical cover of the earth surface or land for instance vegetation cover such as forest, shrub/bushland, and grassland and water. Whereas land cover can be defined as the attributes of the earth’s land surface covered by vegetation, desert, water bodies like lake, sea, ocean, bare soil and ice (Chrysoulakis…

The Indians had no previous experience or scientific knowledge on how to manage or control fire burning, and the extent to which burning land would affect the biodiversity was unknown. Yet, despite the collateral damage caused by the exploration of fire burning, the Indians managed to enhance the ecological effects of natural fire in a way that it encouraged ecosystem subsistence in the long term. For example, it…

cutting has negative and positive effects. There are several arguable effects on the environment, clear cutting has. One of the biggest effects of clear cutting is the loss of habitat. Forests are dependent on over 80% of the world’s terrestrial biodiversity (Forest Habitat). Clear…

likely to reproduce surviving (survival of the fittest). But when non native invasive species are introduced to such an area, they end up destroying the environment and that ecosystem. They eat any fish or plant from that area, hence not keeping biodiversity, and kill species and their habitats. These species dominate the sea, and have very high biotic potential- conditions in which species survive the best and increase in number, for eg: less predators, lots of food, lack of disease or any…

Week 5/By Jeffrey Ray Jackson Sr. Because our human being, health, may depend upon Agricultural biodiversity. We, should save gardening, from the old massive ways. Allowing, vast-full efforts to grow your or my own garden and to continue being a gardener. The garden, reasons of owning a garden, understand growth, what goes on, inside the garden, within-itself. Also, the agriculture and biodiversity information on income, working outside, in the weather. I read the history timeline on having a…

The geographical topic under research is invasive species, focusing on the species Lantana. The aim of the report is to research and thoroughly explore all aspects of the topic and produce a formal written report that could be submitted to local council advising them on the best solution to the environmental issue. A brief outline and what will be found in this report is the causes and effects of Lantana and some of the strategies that could be used to manage the environmental change. Two…

Ecotourism can be described as responsible travel to natural areas which not affect the natural resources and preserve the benefit of local populations (TIES, 2015).Ecotourism no only protect the environment, it also admire the natural environment characteristics and respect the local culture. Ecotourism encourage visitorsto enjoythe natural environments with minimum impact and includes education to environmental conservation (Bob et al., 2008). Ecotourism means people travel to destinations…