Biodiversity part 2 Global Environmental Issues
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Biodiversity part 2Global Environmental Issues
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How do we measure biodiversity?Uncertainty is a central problemNumbers of species1.75 million species scientifically identified. estimated 30 million species on earth. estimated 40,000 species rendered extinct annually.
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what does ‘biodiverse’ mean in practice? example: different varieties of white oak versus different species of oaks versus different genera
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Issue 2: Distribution of populations and sampling problematic
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Issue 3: unit of analysis: population? gene pool? Clade? Genera? What is the appropriate unit for biodiversity analysis?
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Issue 4: Convention on Biodiversity: the US is supposed to measure biodiversity, but has limited funds for the US Biological Survey and HAS NOT signed the international Convention on Biological Diversity. This has been attributed to an administration unwillingness to fund a program which would almost certainly find new species that would then be subject to protection under the Endangered Species Act.
It takes money to measure biodiversity: Our knowledge is dependent upon the resources we invest in assessing and cataloging biodiversity
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Where does Biodiversity come from?•coevolutionary relationships: mutualism, symbiosis, •allopathy•patchiness in landscape ecology
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Types of Biodiversity:•landscape biodiversity engenders biodiversity by increasing the complexity of niches across space
•alpha biodiversity•rollover biodiversityis there information in a landscape, and if so how structured?
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trails, movements of animals and plants, seed dispersals
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Niche complexity within a patch
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biodiversity hot spots:
what is a biodiversity ‘hot spot’?
how do types of biodiversity and processes of biodiversification create in hot spots?
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i. species loss ratesa. absolute
loss
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rates of loss
MAP: Biodiversity loss: state and scenarios 2006 and 2050. greatest losses rank order: Markets First, Security First, Policy First Sustainability First. differences among the regions: broad-scale land-use changes, especially pastureland and biofuel production infrastructure development, pollution climate change, public policy and conflicthttp://www.unep.org/geo/geo4 / http://www.globio.info/region/world/
differ geographically across social and biological contexts
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Biodiversity Loss rates also differ by patch utilization: some areas are more amenable, systematically more amenable, to human exploitation
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Causes of Biodiversity LossProximate versus Background causes
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Background causesconsumption of energy and resources
1.increasing affluence2.lack of sustainable planning or
policies3.population growth
Toxics, wastes, chemical utilization: 4.toxics, 5.CO2, 6.Erosion7.Fertilizer use
Unmediated globalization8.exotic species invasions9.Industrial development in
biodiversity hot spots
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How might we best graph the relation between proximate and background causes of biodiversity loss?
Effect intensity?
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Relational view?
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A final concern for biodiversity: Collapse due to ecological dependency or species interrelations
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biodiversity hot spots:
what is a biodiversity ‘hot spot’?
how do types of biodiversity and processes of biodiversification create in hot spots?