miller/spoolman living in the environment sustaining...•self-help group of women in kenya ......
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LIVING IN THE ENVIRONMENT 17TH MILLER/SPOOLMAN
Chapter 10
Sustaining Terrestrial Biodiversity: The Ecosystem Approach
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Individuals Matter: Wangari Maathari and Kenya’s Green Belt Movement
• Green Belt Movement: 1977
• Self-help group of women in Kenya
• Success of tree planting
• 50,000 members planted 40 million trees
• Women are paid for each tree that survives
• Slows soil erosion
• Shade and beauty
• Combats global warming
• Nobel Peace Prize: 2004
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Wangari Maathari
Fig. 10-1, p. 217
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10-1 What Are the Major Threats to Forest Ecosystems?
• Concept 10-1A Forest ecosystems provide ecological services far greater in value than the value of raw materials obtained from forests.
• Concept 10-1B Unsustainable cutting and burning of forests, along with diseases and insects, all made worse by projected climate change, are the chief threats to forest ecosystems.
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Forests Vary in Their Make-Up, Age, and Origins
• Old-growth or primary forest (36%)
• Uncut, or not disturbed for several hundred years
• Reservoirs of biodiversity
• Second-growth forest (60%)
• Secondary ecological succession
• Tree plantation, (tree farm, commercial forest) (4%)
• May supply most industrial wood in the future
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Natural Capital: An Old-Growth Forest
Fig. 10-2, p. 219
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Rotation Cycle of Cutting and Regrowth of a Monoculture Tree Plantation
Fig. 10-3, p. 219
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Fig. 10-3a, p. 219
25 yrs Weak trees removed
Clear cut
30 yrs
Years of growth 15 yrs
Seedlings planted
5 yrs 10 yrs
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Forests Provide Important Economic and Ecological Services (1)
• Support energy flow and chemical cycling
• Reduce soil erosion
• Absorb and release water
• Purify water and air
• Influence local and regional climate
• Store atmospheric carbon
• Habitats
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Forests Provide Important Economic and Ecological Services (2)
• Wood for fuel
• Lumber
• Pulp to make paper
• Mining
• Livestock grazing
• Recreation
• Employment
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Natural Capital: Major Ecological and
Economic Services Provided by Forests
Fig. 10-4, p. 220
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Fig. 10-4, p. 220
Forests
Support energy flow and chemical cycling
Fuelwood
Ecological Services Economic Services
Natural Capital
Reduce soil erosion Lumber
Absorb and release water
Pulp to make paper
Purify water and air Mining
Influence local and regional climate Livestock grazing
Store atmospheric carbon Recreation
Provide numerous wildlife habitats Jobs
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Science Focus: Putting a Price Tag on Nature’s Ecological Services
• Forests valued for ecological services • Nutrient cycling
• Climate regulation
• Erosion control
• Waste treatment
• Recreation
• Raw materials
• $4.7 trillion per year
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Estimated Annual Global Economic Values of Ecological Services Provided by Forests
Fig. 10-A, p. 221
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Fig. 10-A, p. 221
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Unsustainable Logging is a Major Threat to Forest Ecosystems (1)
• Increased erosion
• Sediment runoff into waterways
• Habitat fragmentation
• Loss of biodiversity
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Unsustainable Logging is a Major Threat to Forest Ecosystems (2)
• Invasion by
• Nonnative pests
• Disease
• Wildlife species
• Major tree harvesting methods:
• Selective cutting
• Clear-cutting
• Strip cutting
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Natural Capital Degradation: Building Roads into Previously Inaccessible Forests
Fig. 10-5, p. 221
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Fig. 10-5a, p. 221
New highway
Old growth
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Fig. 10-5b, p. 221
Cleared plots for grazing
Highway
Cleared plots for agriculture
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New highway
Old growth
Cleared plots for agriculture
Highway Cleared plots for grazing
Stepped Art
Fig. 10-5, p. 221
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Major Tree Harvesting Methods
Fig. 10-6, p. 222
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Fig. 10-6a, p. 222
(a) Selective cutting
Clear stream
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Fig. 10-6b, p. 222
(b) Clear-cutting
Muddy stream
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Fig. 10-6c, p. 222
(c) Strip cutting
Uncut Cut 1 year ago
Dirt road
Cut 3–10 years ago
Uncut
Clear stream
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Stepped Art
(b) Clear-cutting
Muddy
stream
Uncut
Cut 1 year ago
Dirt road
Cut 3–10 years ago
Uncut
Clear stream
(a) Selective cutting
(c) Strip cutting
Clear stream
Fig. 10-6, p. 222
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Clear-Cut Logging in Washington State
Fig. 10-7, p. 222
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Trade-offs: Advantages and Disadvantages of Clear-Cutting Forests
Fig. 10-8, p. 223
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Fig. 10-8, p. 223
Trade-Offs
Clear-Cutting Forests
Advantages Disadvantages
Higher timber yields
Reduces biodiversity
Destroys and fragments wildlife habitats
Maximum profits in shortest time
Can reforest with fast-growing trees
Increases water pollution, flooding, and erosion on steep slopes
Good for tree species needing full or moderate sunlight Eliminates most
recreational value
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Fire, Insects, and Climate Change Can
Threaten Forest Ecosystems (1)
• Surface fires
• Usually burn leaf litter and undergrowth
• May provide food in the form of vegetation that sprouts after fire
• Crown fires
• Extremely hot: burns whole trees
• Kill wildlife
• Increase soil erosion
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Fire, Insects, and Climate Change Can Threaten Forest Ecosystems (2)
• Introduction of foreign diseases and insects • Accidental
• Deliberate
• Global warming • Rising temperatures
• Trees more susceptible to diseases and pests
• Drier forests: more fires
• More greenhouse gases
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Surface and Crown Fires
Fig. 10-9, p. 223
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Nonnative Insect Species and Disease Organisms in U.S. Forests
Figure 10, Supplement 8
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We Have Cut Down Almost Half of the World’s Forests
• Deforestation
• Tropical forests
• Especially in Latin America, Indonesia, and Africa
• Boreal forests
• Especially in Alaska, Canada, Scandinavia, and Russia
• Encouraging news
• Net total forest cover has stayed the same or increased in U.S. and a few other countries between 2000 and 2007
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Natural Capital Degradation: Harmful Environmental Effects of Deforestation
Fig. 10-12, p. 226
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Case Study: Many Cleared Forests in the United States Have Grown Back
• Forests of the eastern United States decimated between 1620 and 1920
• Grown back naturally through secondary ecological succession in the eastern states
• Biologically simplified tree plantations reduce biodiversity and deplete nutrients from soil
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Tropical Forests are Disappearing Rapidly
• Majority of loss since 1950
• Africa, Southeast Asia, South America
• 98% will be gone by 2022
• Role of deforestation in species’ extinction
• Secondary forest can grow back in 15-20 years
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Natural Capital Degradation: Extreme Tropical Deforestation in Thailand
Fig. 10-11, p. 226
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Species Diversity in Tropical Forests
Fig. 10-13, p. 227
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Causes of Tropical Deforestation Are Varied and Complex
• Population growth
• Poverty of subsistence farmers
• Ranching
• Lumber
• Plantation farms: palm oil
• Begins with building of roads
• Many forests burned
• Can tilt tropical forest to tropical savanna
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Major Causes of the Destruction and Degradation of Tropical Forests
Fig. 10-14, p. 228
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Fig. 10-14, p. 228
Natural Capital Degradation
Major Causes of the Destruction and Degradation of Tropical Forests
Underlying Causes Direct Causes
• Not valuing ecological services • Roads • Cattle ranching
• Crop and timber exports • Fires • Logging
• Government policies • Settler farming • Tree plantations
• Poverty • Cash crops
• Population growth
Cattle ranching
Tree plantations Logging
Cash crops
Settler farming
Fires Roads
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Cattle
ranching
Tree
plantations Logging
Cash crops
Settler
farming Fires Roads
Secondary Causes • Roads • Cattle ranching • Fires • Logging • Settler farming • Tree plantations • Cash crops
• Not valuing ecological services
• Government policies
• Poverty • Population growth
NATURAL CAPITAL
DEGRADATION
Major Causes of the Destruction and Degradation of Tropical Forests
Basic Causes
• Crop and timber exports
Stepped Art
Fig. 10-14, p. 228
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Natural Capital Degradation: Large Areas of Brazil’s Amazon Basin Are Burned
Fig. 10-15, p. 228
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10-2 How Should We Manage and Sustain Forests?
• Concept 10-2 We can sustain forests by emphasizing the economic value of their ecological services, removing government subsidies that hasten their destruction, protecting old-growth forests, harvesting trees no faster than they are replenished, and planting trees.
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Solution: Sustainable Forestry
Fig. 10-16, p. 230
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Science Focus: Certifying Sustainably Grown Timber
• Collins Pine
• Owns and manages protective timberland
• Forest Stewardship Council
• Nonprofit
• Developed list of environmentally sound practices
• Certifies timber and products
• 2009: 5% of world’s forest have certified to FSC standards
• Also certifies manufacturers of wood products
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We Can Improve the Management of Forest Fires
• The Smokey Bear educational campaign
• Prescribed fires
• Allow fires on public lands to burn
• Protect structures in fire-prone areas
• Thin forests in fire-prone areas
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We Can Reduce the Demand for Harvested Trees
• Improve the efficiency of wood use
• 60% of U.S. wood use is wasted
• Make tree-free paper
• Kenaf
• Hemp
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Solutions: Fast-Growing Plant: Kenaf
Fig. 10-17, p. 231
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Case Study: Deforestation and the Fuelwood Crisis
• One half of world wood harvest is for fuel
• Possible solutions
• Establish small plantations of fast-growing fuelwood trees and shrubs
• Burn wood more efficiently
• Solar or wind-generated electricity
• Burn garden waste
• Haiti: ecological disaster
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Mangrove Forest in Haiti Chopped Down for Fuelwood
Fig. 10-18, p. 232
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Governments and Individuals Can Act to Reduce Tropical Deforestation
• Reduce fuelwood demand
• Practice small-scale sustainable agriculture and
forestry in tropical forest
• Government protection
• Debt-for-nature swaps/conservation concessions
• Plant trees
• Buy certified lumber and wood products
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Solutions: Sustaining Tropical Forests
Fig. 10-19, p. 233
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Fig. 10-19, p. 233
Solutions
Sustaining Tropical Forests
Prevention Restoration
Protect the most diverse and endangered areas
Encourage regrowth through secondary succession
Educate settlers about sustainable agriculture and forestry
Subsidize only sustainable forest use
Rehabilitate degraded areas Protect forests through
debt-for-nature swaps and conservation concessions
Certify sustainably grown timber
Concentrate farming and ranching in already-cleared areas
Reduce poverty
Slow population growth
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10-3 How Should We Manage and Sustain Grasslands?
• Concept 10-3 We can sustain the productivity of grasslands by controlling the number and distribution of grazing livestock, and by restoring degraded grasslands.
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Some Rangelands Are Overgrazed (1)
• Rangelands
• Unfenced grasslands in temperate and tropical climates that provide forage for animals
• Pastures
• Managed grasslands and fences meadows used for grazing livestock
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Some Rangelands Are Overgrazed (2)
• Important ecological services of grasslands
• Soil formation
• Erosion control
• Nutrient cycling
• Storage of atmospheric carbon dioxide in biomass
• Maintenance of diversity
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Some Rangelands are Overgrazed (3)
• Overgrazing of rangelands
• Reduces grass cover
• Leads to erosion of soil by water and wind
• Soil becomes compacted
• Enhances invasion of plant species that cattle won’t eat
• Malapi Borderlands
• Arizona-New Mexico border
• Management success story
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Natural Capital Degradation: Overgrazed and Lightly Grazed Rangeland
Fig. 10-20, p. 234
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We Can Manage Rangelands More Sustainably (1)
• Rotational grazing
• Suppress growth of invasive species • Herbicides
• Mechanical removal
• Controlled burning
• Controlled short-term trampling
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We Can Manage Rangelands More Sustainably (2)
• Replant barren areas
• Apply fertilizer
• Reduce soil erosion
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Natural Capital Restoration: San Pedro River in Arizona
Fig. 10-21, p. 235
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Case Study: Grazing and Urban Development the American West
• American southwest population surge since 1980
• Land trust groups: conservation easements
• Reduce the harmful environmental impact of herds
• Rotate cattle away from riparian areas
• Use less fertilizers and pesticides
• Operate ranch more economically and sustainably
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10-4 How Should We Manage and Sustain Parks and Natural Reserves?
• Concept 10-4 Sustaining biodiversity will require more effective protection of existing parks and nature reserves, as well as the protection of much more of the earth’s remaining undisturbed land area.
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National Parks Face Many Environmental Threats
• Worldwide: 1100 major national parks
• Parks in developing countries • Greatest biodiversity
• 1% protected against • Illegal animal poaching
• Illegal logging and mining
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Case Study: Stresses on U.S. Public Parks (1)
• 58 Major national parks in the U.S.
• Biggest problem may be popularity
• Noise
• Congestion
• Pollution
• Damage or destruction to vegetation and wildlife
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Case Study: Stresses on U.S. Public Parks (2)
• Damage from nonnative species
• Boars and mountain goats
• Introduced plants, insects, worms
• Native species sometimes killed or removed
• Threatened islands of biodiversity
• Air pollution
• Need billions in trail and infrastructure repairs
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Grand Teton National Park
Fig. 10-22, p. 237
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Natural Capital Degradation: Damage From Off-Road Vehicles
Fig. 10-23, p. 237
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Solutions: National Parks
Fig. 10-24, p. 239
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Science Focus: Reintroducing the Gray Wolf to Yellowstone National Park
• Keystone species
• 1995: reintroduced; 2009: 116 wolves in park
• Prey on elk and push them to a higher elevation
• Regrowth of aspen, cottonwoods, and willows
• More beaver dams, more wetlands, more aspens
• Reduced the number of coyotes
• Fewer attacks on cattle
• More smaller mammals
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Natural Capital Restoration: Gray Wolf
Fig. 10-B, p. 238
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Nature Reserves Occupy Only a Small Part of the Earth’s Land
• Currently less than 13% is protected
• Conservationists’ goal: protect 20%
• Cooperation between government and private groups and concerned individuals
• Nature Conservancy
• Land trust groups
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Silver Creek Nature Conservancy Preserve near Sun Valley, Idaho
Fig. 10-25, p. 240
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Designing and Connecting Nature Reserves
• Large versus small reserves
• The buffer zone concept
• United Nations: 553 biosphere reserves in 107 countries
• Habitat corridors between isolated reserves
• Advantages
• Disadvantages
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Case Study: Costa Rica—A Global Conservation Leader
• 1963–1983: cleared much of the forest
• 1986–2006: forests grew from 26% to 51%
• Goal: net carbon dioxide emissions to zero by 2021
• ¼ of land in nature reserves and natural parks – global leader
• Earns $1 billion per year in tourism
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Solutions: Costa Rica: Parks and Reserves—Eight Megareserves
Fig. 10-26, p. 241
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Fig. 10-26, p. 241
Nicaragua Caribbean Sea
Costa Rica
Panama
Pacific Ocean
National parkland
Buffer zone
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Protecting Wilderness Is an Important Way to Preserve Biodiversity
• Wilderness
• Land officially designated as having no serious disturbance from human activities
• Wilderness Act of 1964
• Controversial…
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Case Study: Controversy over Wilderness Protection in the United States
• Wilderness Act of 1964
• Protect undeveloped lands
• 2% of lower 48 protected, mostly in West
• 10-fold increase from 1970 to 2010
• 2009
• 2 million more acres get wilderness protection
• 50% increase in length of wild and scenic rivers
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10-5 What is the Ecosystem Approach to Sustaining Biodiversity?
• Concept 10-5 We can help sustain biodiversity by identifying and protecting severely threatened areas (biodiversity hotspots), restoring damaged ecosystems (using restoration ecology), and sharing with other species much of the land we dominate (using reconciliation ecology).
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We Can Use a Four-Point Strategy to Protect Ecosystems
1. Map global ecosystems; identify species
2. Locate and protect most endangered ecosystems and species
3. Restore degraded ecosystems
4. Development must be biodiversity-friendly
• Are new laws needed?
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Protecting Global Biodiversity Hot Spots Is an Urgent Priority
• 34 biodiversity hot spots rich in plant species
• 2% of earth’s surface, but 50% of flowering plant species and 42% of terrestrial vertebrates
• 1.2 billion people
• Drawbacks of this approach
• May not be rich in animal diversity
• People may be displaced and/or lose access to important resources
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Endangered Natural Capital: 34 Biodiversity Hotspots
Fig. 10-27, p. 243
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Endangered Natural Capital: Biodiversity Hotspots in the U.S.
Figure 27, Supplement 8
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Protecting Ecosystem Services Is Also an Urgent Priority
• U.N. Millennium Ecosystem Assessment: 2005
• Identify key ecosystem services
• Human activities degrade or overuse 60% of the earth’s natural services
• Identify highly stressed life raft ecosystems
• High poverty levels
• Ecosystem services degraded
• Foster cooperation among residents, government and scientists to protect people and biodiversity
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We Can Rehabilitate and Restore Ecosystems That We Have Damaged (1)
• Study how natural ecosystems recover
1. Restoration
2. Rehabilitation
3. Replacement
4. Creating artificial ecosystems
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We Can Rehabilitate and Restore Ecosystems That We Have Damaged (2)
• How to carry out most forms of ecological restoration and rehabilitation
1. Identify what caused the degradation
2. Stop the abuse
3. Reintroduce species, if possible
4. Protect from further degradation
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Science Focus: Ecological Restoration of a Tropical Dry Forest in Costa Rica
• Guanacaste National Park restoration project
• Relinked to adjacent rain forest
• Bring in cattle and horses – aid in seed dispersal
• Local residents – actively involved
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Will Restoration Encourage Further Destruction?
• Preventing ecosystem damage is cheaper than restoration
• About 5% of the earth’s land is preserved from the effects of human activities
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We Can Share Areas We Dominate With Other Species
• Reconciliation ecology
• Invent and maintain habitats for species diversity where people live, work, and play
• Community-based conservation
• Belize and the black howler monkeys
• Protect vital insect pollinators
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Case Study: The Blackfoot Challenge—Reconciliation Ecology in Action
• 1970s: Blackfoot River Valley in Montana threatened by
• Poor mining, logging, and grazing practices
• Water and air pollution
• Unsustainable commercial and residential development
• Community meetings led to
• Weed-pulling parties
• Nesting structures for waterfowl
• Developed sustainable grazing systems
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What Can You Do? Sustaining Terrestrial Biodiversity
Fig. 10-28, p. 247
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Three Big Ideas
1. The economic values of the important ecological services provided by the world’s ecosystems are far greater than the value of the raw materials obtained from those systems.
2. We can manage forests, grasslands, parks, and nature preserves more effectively by protecting more land, preventing over-use of these areas, and using renewable resources provided by them no faster than such resources can be replenished by natural processes.
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Three Big Ideas
3. We can sustain terrestrial biodiversity by protecting severely threatened areas, protecting remaining undisturbed areas, restoring damaged ecosystems, and sharing with other species much of the land we dominate.