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M ARVELOUSLY VARIED, HAVING COMPLEX LIFE CYCLES, AND TEEMING BY THE MILLIONS IN EVERY ACRE OF LAND, SPRINGTAILS PLAY VITAL ECOLOGICAL ROLES BY CONSUMING DEAD VEGETABLE MATTER. communism and Russian-U.S. relations entered their most cooperative period since the Second World War. The industrialized countries could now, it seemed, turn more of their energies to domestic reform, including improvement of the environment. It appeared to many scientists, the public and political leaders that this opportunity was realized not a moment too soon. What were previously viewed as mostly local events such as pollution of a harbor here or landfilling of a marsh there, had coalesced into secular global trends. Through advances in technology, scientists were able to make precise measurements of changes in the atmosphere and of the rates of deforestation and other forms of habitat destruction. And when the iron curtain lifted, the environment was revealed to be even worse off in socialist countries than in the capitalist West. Action to reverse the decline was demanded everywhere. B i o l o g i c a l 8 D i v e r s i t y
N EW YORK’S BIODIVERSITY IS THREATENED MAINLY BECAUSE OF HUMAN ACTIVITY. HABITAT DESTRUCTION AND/OR PESTICIDES HAVE CAUSED SPECIES SUCH AS THE KARNER BLUE BUTTERFLY (PICTURED BELOW), LOGGERHEAD SHRIKE AND BLACK TERN TO BECOME ENDANGERED. MISMANAGEMENT, SPECIFICALLY OVERHUNTING, HELPED BRING THE PASSENGER PIGEON TO EXTINCTION AND EXTIRPATED THE MOUNTAIN LION, GRAY WOLF AND ELK FROM THE NORTHEAST. PLANT SPECIES LIKE LEATHERFLOWER (CLEMATIS OCHROLEUCA ), SHORTLEAF PINE (PINUS ECHINATA ), AND LONG’S BULRUSH (SCIRPUS LONGII ) ONCE OCCURRED IN THE NEW YORK METROPOLITAN AREA, BUT DISAPPEARED AS THE CITY EXPANDED AND DESTROYED WOODLANDS AND WETLANDS. B i o l o g i c a l 9 D i v e r s i t y
Page 1: Biological Diversity: T H E O L D E
Page 4 and 5: THE UNIVERSITY OF THE STATE OF NEW
Page 6 and 7: Copyright © 1999 by The New York S
Page 9 and 10: Preface This book is based on a man
Page 11 and 12: Additional information on the activ
Page 13 and 14: Biological Diversity: T H E O L D E
Page 15 and 16: some degree of potency. A much high
Page 17 and 18: Some groups of organisms, such as f
Page 19: to their environment and to one ano
Page 23 and 24: 12 10 Number of Butterflies Observe
Page 25 and 26: It is possible that the next hundre
Page 27 and 28: environment. For almost 3 billion y
Page 29 and 30: W ITH ITS WISPINESS AND LIGHT-AND-D
Page 31 and 32: sophisticated microscopic and bioch
Page 33 and 34: The tropical zones generally have a
Page 35 and 36: average as well as greater ecologic
Page 37 and 38: early extinction within the next 30
Page 39 and 40: perished. As the paleontologist Dav
Page 41 and 42: collected in the stream in 1936 and
Page 43 and 44: Systematics, or taxonomy, is at the
Page 45 and 46: Community ecology addresses the man
Page 47 and 48: Biological field stations from four
Page 49 and 50: Biogeography 1 The scientific study
Page 51 and 52: Dispersal In biology, the way a spe
Page 53 and 54: Global warming An increase in the c
Page 55 and 56: Ozone A form of oxygen (O 3 ) that
Page 57 and 58: Termites A group of insects that is
Page 59 and 60: Grifo, Francesca, and J. Rosenthal
Page 61 and 62: diverse and why the threat to that
Page 63 and 64: Mitchell, Richard S., L. Danaher, a
Page 65 and 66: 9. Is an ecologist the same as a ta
Page 67 and 68: 31. Do you know of a biological res
Page 69 and 70: B i o l o g i c a l 57 D i v e r s
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