Ecosystem management & reasons for protection. Pre-reading p 31-36

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  1. 2. There are a range of methods to protect the earth’s biodiversity including o Setting aside and protecting large areas of wilderness, zoos, botanic gardens and _______ _________.
  2. 6. The diversity of life on earth is of inestimable value. The ____________ of the environment is central to the future wellbeing the Earth and its inhabitants.
  3. 10. A threat to biodiversity derived from poisons produced to dispose of unwanted organisms.
  4. 13. Changes in areas around protected buffer zones could affect ___________ patterns of species.
  5. 14. Characteristics that enable organisms to cope with stress.
  6. 15. Ecosystems that are have a greater resilience are able to recover more readily from natural and human stress. Such ecosystems are typically rich in _____________.
  7. 17. Holding an ecocentric world view Australia's _____________ peoples demonstrate appreciation of the intrinsic value of environments through history and culture.
  8. 19. The value of natural features consisting of formations which are of outstanding universal value from the aesthetic or scientific point of view.
  9. 21. Plays a critical role in developing public support for heritage listing.
  10. 22. As an example of utility value, our survival as a species depends on just a few species of ______
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  1. 1. A loss of even a small amount of rainforest could mean the loss of potential ____________
  2. 3. The modern country where wheat originally came from.
  3. 4. Protection and preservation measures alone will not be sufficient to save many species from ___________.
  4. 5. The diversity of life forms on Earth is a product of these ongoing processes.
  5. 7. When a species is successful at regeneration and adaption it is less ______________ to changes in its ecosystem.
  6. 8. Ecosystems play a vital role in processes critical to human wellbeing. An examples of this utility value are recycling nutrients and wastes, maintaining air quality and _________ water.
  7. 9. Accounts for 23% of animal extinction since 1600.
  8. 11. Pest-controlling strategies that involve the introduction of organisms are designed to bring what within an ecosystem?
  9. 12. Protecting large areas of ecosystems is critical to allow __________ change to proceed.
  10. 16. The value of an ecosystem having the right to exist irrespective of its utility value. These include the aesthetic qualities and providing for the inspirational and spiritual needs of people.
  11. 18. The value that describes all living and non-living components of Earth's ecosphere as having an existing or potential usefulness.
  12. 20. A specific utility value that quantifies the value of contained resources that could be exploited is is its __________ value.