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• What matters most in an ecosystem
• BIODIVERSITY
• Genetic diversity
• Species diversity
• Ecosystem diversity.

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• Four major threats to biodiversity

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• Four major threats to biodiversity
• habitat destruction

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• Four major threats to biodiversity
• habitat destruction

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• Four major threats to biodiversity
• introduced species

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• Four major threats to biodiversity
• introduced species

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• Four major threats to biodiversity
• overexploitation

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• Four major threats to biodiversity
• overexploitation

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• Four major threats to biodiversity
• disruption of interaction networks (keystone
  species)

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Conservation Biology and Restorative Ecology

• Four major threats to biodiversity
• disruption of interaction networks (keystone
  species)

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Conservation Biology and Restorative Ecology

• Four major threats to biodiversity
• habitat destruction
• introduced species
• overexploitation
• disruption of interaction networks (keystone
  species.)

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• Whats important for a species?
• Minimum viable population size for genetic
  diversity (MVP)
• Environmental factors that cause population
  decline.

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• Whats important for a landscape?
• Fragmentation (corredors)
• Legal protection (parks.)

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• What is most important when planning for
  development?
• SUSTAINABILITY.

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