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natural resources:
energy, water, air,
biodiversity.
What is Biodiversity?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Kudzu_on_trees_in_Atlanta,_Georgia.jpg
Pollution
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:AlfedPalmersmokestacks.jpg
Population, Human overpopulation that is.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:World_population.svg
Overharvesting, Overuse, Overexploitation
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Fishing_down_the_food_web.jpg
Raven, Berg, and Hassenzahl put it this way
Human
Land use change
Population
(Habitat loss)
Increase
Increasing Increasing
Economic Economic
Activity Activity Declining
Biological
Diversity
Increased use Increased use
of technology of technology
Indirect Direct
(Underlying causes
causes)
Characteristics shared by many
endangered species include:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Siproeta_epaphus_Galawebdesign.jpg
Important Laws Protecting Biodiversity
Sara Abdulla,
Chief Commissioning Editor, Nature
March 2010
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:MEAConservationStrategies.jpg
This summary of the
relative effects by the year
2100 is a composite derived
from calculations carried
out for 12 individual
terrestrial and freshwater
ecosystems by O. E. Sala et
al. (Science287, 1770–1774;
2000). Overall, changes in
land use constitute the main
estimated impact on
biodiversity, but the
pattern varies considerably
for different ecosystems.
According to Sala and
colleagues' calculations,
climate change will have the
strongest effect on Arctic,
alpine and boreal
ecosystems, whereas biotic
exchange (that is, invasion
by non-native species) will
exert its main influence in
lakes.
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