Chapter 8 Sustaining Biodiversity

What is the outer zone of an area called where people can extract resources?

What is caused by the absorption of excess CO₂ by the ocean?

Which type of fire burns whole trees and kills wildlife?

How much of the world's grasslands are grazed on by livestock?

What helped to protect old-growth forests?

What is one way of preventing damage to grasslands from overgrazing?

Biodiversity can be destroyed by removing dams and allowing the river to run freely.

Reconciliation ecology is a way of conserving species diversity in places where humans live,etc

What ruins the scenic views at National Parks?

Which type of tree harvesting limits the harvest to one narrow corridor?

What is another name for old-growth forest?

Range lands and pasture lands are both fenced.

What is most of the tree free paper in the US made from?

What mainly protects the wilderness in Alaska

What percent of ecosystem services do humans degrade and overuse?

Wilderness areas are off-limits to all humans.

Poor shell and skeleton formation is a result of

Providing foreign aid or debt relief for protecting the tropical rain forest is

Large amounts of endangered species are found in

Which aquatic areas need the most restoration according to ecosystem approach for biodiversity?

______ is turning a degraded ecosystem into a useful ecosystem but not to its original state.

Planting prairie grass along a railroad is an example of ___________________ ecology

Pasture lands and rangelands are both also known as

Which of these is an example of the Tragedy of the Commons?