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Quiz on Biodiversity, created by phurtado on 17/11/2015.
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Question 1

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TERRITORIAL BIOMES
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  • Biological communities areas to sharing climate conditions, growth patterns, vegetation types, soil conditions, topographic.
  • Biological productivity which is a varies greatly from one biomes to another

Question 2

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TROPICAL RAINFOREST
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  • Near to Earth's equator. A lot of precipitation. Rainfall is abundant. High mountain fog and mist.
  • Have wet and dry season. Called dry tropical forest. Green during rainy. Have a seasonal climate.
  • Mediterranean. Dry summers and cool, moist winters. Dry subtropical. Warm temperature. Southwestern north America.
  • Low moisture levels. Precipitation is unpredictable. Productivity low. Water limited factor. Slow growing. Temperature wide daily. Very hot days, vet coolest nights.
  • Precipitation important element. Precipitation can fall in rain or snow. The average influenced by the nearby ocean. Diverse temperate
  • High levels of precipitation. Humidity. Wide leaves. Non seasonal vegetation
  • Little rainfall. Rainy season. During dry season is fired
  • Few tress due to rainfall. Seasonal temperatures. Frequent grass fires. Tropical latitudes. Humid areas. Farming.
  • Winter cold temperatures. Lower latitudes. High altitudes. Dominant tress are pines, cedar. Canada
  • Cold temperature. High altitudes. Water is frozen. Small plants. Low diversity and productivity

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TROPICAL SEASONAL FOREST
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  • Mediterranean. Dry summers and cool, moist winters. Dry subtropical. Warm temperature. Southwestern north America.
  • Near to Earth's equator. A lot of precipitation. Rainfall is abundant. High mountain fog and mist.
  • Low moisture levels. Precipitation is unpredictable. Productivity low. Water limited factor. Slow growing. Temperature wide daily. Very hot days, vet coolest nights.
  • Have wet and dry season. Called dry tropical forest. Green during rainy. Have a seasonal climate.

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DESERT
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  • Low moisture levels. Precipitation is unpredictable. Productivity low. Water limited factor. Slow growing. Temperature wide daily. Very hot days, vet coolest nights.
  • Precipitation important element. Precipitation can fall in rain or snow. The average influenced by the nearby ocean. Diverse temperate
  • High levels of precipitation. Humidity. Wide leaves. Non seasonal vegetation

Question 5

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TEMPERATE REINFOREST
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  • Precipitation important element. Precipitation can fall in rain or snow. The average influenced by the nearby ocean. Diverse temperate. Pacific Northwest
  • High levels of precipitation. Humidity. Wide leaves. Non seasonal vegetation
  • Low moisture levels. Precipitation is unpredictable. Productivity low. Water limited factor. Slow growing. Temperature wide daily. Very hot days, vet coolest nights.

Question 6

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TEMPERATE FOREST
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  • High levels of precipitation. Humidity. Wide leaves. Non seasonal vegetation
  • Little rainfall. Rainy season. During dry season is fired
  • Few tress due to rainfall. Seasonal temperatures. Frequent grass fires. Tropical latitudes. Humid areas. Farming.

Question 7

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SAVANNA
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  • Little rainfall. Rainy season. During dry season is fired
  • Few tress due to rainfall. Seasonal temperatures. Frequent grass fires. Tropical latitudes. Humid areas. Farming.
  • Winter cold temperatures. Lower latitudes. High altitudes. Dominant tress are pines, cedar. Canada

Question 8

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GRASSLANDS
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  • Few tress due to rainfall. Seasonal temperatures. Frequent grass fires. Tropical latitudes. Humid areas. Farming.
  • Winter cold temperatures. Lower latitudes. High altitudes. Dominant tress are pines, cedar. Canada
  • Mediterranean. Dry summers and cool, moist winters. Dry subtropical. Warm temperature. Southwestern north America.

Question 9

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BOREAL FOREST
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  • Winter cold temperatures. Lower latitudes. High altitudes. Dominant tress are pines, cedar. Canada
  • Cold temperature. High altitudes. Water is frozen. Small plants. Low diversity and productivity
  • Near to Earth's equator. A lot of precipitation. Rainfall is abundant. High mountain fog and mist.

Question 10

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TUNDRA
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  • Cold temperature. High altitudes. Water is frozen. Small plants. Low diversity and productivity
  • Winter cold temperatures. Lower latitudes. High altitudes. Dominant tress are pines, cedar. Canada
  • Little rainfall. Rainy season. During dry season is fired

Question 11

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MOST IMPORTANT FACTOS BIOME DISTRIBUTIONS
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  • Temperature and Precipitation
  • Precipitation and Altitude
  • Altitude and Latitude
  • Latitude and Temperature

Question 12

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TROPICAL THORN OR WOODLANDS
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  • Mediterranean. Dry summers and cool, moist winters. Dry subtropical. Warm temperature. Southwestern north America.
  • Precipitation important element. Precipitation can fall in rain or snow. The average influenced by the nearby ocean. Diverse temperate. Pacific Northwest
  • Few tress due to rainfall. Seasonal temperatures. Frequent grass fires. Tropical latitudes. Humid areas. Farming.

Question 13

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CRITICAL AQUATIC CHARACTERISTICS
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  • Dissolved Substances
  • Change the matter
  • Depth
  • Temperature
  • Flow rate
  • Precipitation
  • Altitude
  • Latitude

Question 14

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FRESHWATER ECOSYSTEMS
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  • Water ponds
  • Lakes
  • Rivers
  • Streams
  • Ponds
  • Estuaries
  • Salt marshes

Question 15

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MARINE ECOSYSTEM
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  • Most biological rich ecosystems
  • Diversity
  • Endangered communities
  • Photosynthesis - Phytoplankton
  • Susceptible to the change
  • Ocean diversity

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WETLANDS
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  • Covered with water. Water saturate change the soil. Oxidization reaction,
  • Body water surrounded by land
  • Water that form where rivers enter to the ocean. Sediments around. River empty into the sea. Fresh water + Salt water.

Question 17

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Swamps
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  • With tress
  • Without tress
  • Soil accumulate to produce peat for energy

Question 18

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Marshes
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  • Soil accumulate to produce peat for energy
  • Without trees
  • With tress

Question 19

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Boys and fens
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  • With tress
  • Without tress
  • Soil accumulate to produce peat for energy

Question 20

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Lakes
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  • Body water surrounded by land
  • Body formed naturally smaller than a lake
  • Natural steam of water flowing in a define course

Question 21

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Ponds
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  • Body formed naturally smaller than a lake
  • Natural steam of water flowing in a define course
  • Soil accumulate to produce peat for energy

Question 22

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Rivers
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  • Natural steam of water flowing in a define course
  • Body formed naturally smaller than a lake
  • Coastal wetlands. Where the freshwater mixed with seawater.

Question 23

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Estuaries
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  • Water that form where rivers enter to the ocean. Sediments around. River empty into the sea. Fresh water + Salt water.
  • Coastal wetlands. Where the freshwater mixed with seawater.
  • Covered with water. Water saturate change the soil. Oxidization reaction,

Question 24

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Salt marshes
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  • Coastal wetlands. Where the freshwater mixed with seawater.
  • Salt tolerant trees that grown along warm, calm marine coasts. Roots systems.
  • Natural steam of water flowing in a define course

Question 25

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MANGROVES
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  • Salt tolerant trees that grown along warm, calm marine coasts. Roots systems.
  • Most biological rich ecosystem. Colonial organisms
  • Change to white when it is stress

Question 26

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CORAL REEFS
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  • Most biological rich ecosystem. Colonial organisms
  • Change to white when it is stress
  • Body formed naturally smaller than a lake

Question 27

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CORAL BLEACHING
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  • Change to white when it is stress
  • Most biological rich ecosystem. Colonial organisms
  • Coastal wetlands. Where the freshwater mixed with seawater.

Question 28

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BIODIVERSITY
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  • Variety of living things
  • Measure of different versions of same genes within individual species
  • Number of different kinds of organisms into a community
  • Measure richness and complexity of a community.

Question 29

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GENETIC DIVERSITY
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  • Measure of different versions of same genes within individual species
  • Number of different kinds of organisms into a community
  • Measure richness and complexity of a community.

Question 30

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SPECIES DIVERSITY
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  • Measure richness and complexity of a community.
  • Number of different kinds of organisms into a community
  • Measure of different versions of same genes within individual species
  • Variety of living things

Question 31

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BENEFITS OF DIVERSITY
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  • Water
  • Drug
  • Medicine
  • Air purification
  • Cycling
  • Genetic
  • Solar energy
  • Descomposition
  • Ecotourism
  • Fishing

Question 32

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Pharming
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  • Animals and plant to pharmaceutical products
  • Invertebrate is a 70%.
  • Organism where they are not native.

Question 33

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How many species are estimated of exist
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  • 1.7 million species identified
  • 1300 Species and 250 in consideration.
  • Minimum population long-term viability of a species- how many needs to increase?

Question 34

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Specie most discovered
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  • Invertebrate
  • Insect
  • Mammals

Question 35

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Causes of reduction
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  • Habitat destruction
  • Degradation
  • Fragmentation
  • Hunting and fishing
  • Commercial
  • Predator
  • Prey

Question 36

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Extinction
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  • Elimination of a species
  • Natural causes of extinction
  • Fragmentation
  • Habitat destruction

Question 37

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Extinction increase
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  • The human impact have accelerated hundred to thousand extinctions annually
  • Minimum population long-term viability of a species- how many needs to increase?
  • Fist area protect wild nature. First National Park in the world. Wildlife and wilderness.

Question 38

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More frequent commercial products is
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  • Reptiles, Mammals, Birds, Fish
  • Fish, mammals, birds, reptiles

Question 39

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Exotic Organism
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  • Organism where they are not native.
  • Natural causes of extinction
  • Animals and plant to pharmaceutical products

Question 40

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Examples of Exotic organism
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  • Kudzu Vine
  • Leafy spurge
  • Purple Loosestrife
  • Zebra mussels
  • Mammals
  • Reptiles
  • Invertebrate

Question 41

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Permian period
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  • All marine species, plans and animals
  • Reptiles, Mammals, Birds, Fish
  • The human impact have accelerated hundred to thousand extinctions annually

Question 42

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Biodiversity hotspot
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  • Is a bio geographic region that is both a significant and high biodiversity and is threatened with destruction.
  • Engendered imminent danger or extinct species. Threatened become engendered in the future. Regulates a wide range of activities
  • Minimum population long-term viability of a species- how many needs to increase?

Question 43

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Biodiversity hotspot
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  • Tropical rain forest.
  • Coral reefs.
  • Mammals
  • Reptiles
  • Invertebrates

Question 44

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Endangered Species Act (ESA
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  • Engendered imminent danger or extinct species
  • Threatened become engendered in the future. Regulates a wide range of activities
  • Minimum population long-term viability of a species- how many needs to increase?
  • Preserve and protect the wild nature places

Question 45

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Engendered imminent danger or extinct species
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  • Endangered Species Act (ESA)
  • Minimum Viable Populations
  • 1300 Species and 250 in consideration

Question 46

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Some activities involve endangered species
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  • Taking
  • Selling
  • Importing and exporting to U.S
  • Possessing
  • Transporting or shipping
  • Tropical rainforest
  • Coral reefs

Question 47

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How many species are estimated endangered?:
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  • 1300 Species and 250 in consideration
  • 1.7 million species identified

Question 48

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Recovery plan
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  • Rebuilding of the species to sustainable levels
  • Preserve and protect the wild nature places
  • Ecologist observed growing elk population.

Question 49

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MVP
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  • Minimum Viable Populations
  • Minimum population long-term viability of a species
  • how many needs to increase?
  • President Ulysses Grant 1872
  • Engendered imminent danger or extinct species

Question 50

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What are the problems associated with parks
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  • Become islands
  • Destructive lands
  • Growing human population
  • Park Boundaries
  • Rebuilding of the species to sustainable levels
  • Ecologist observed growing elk population.

Question 51

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What is the purpose of parks and preserves
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  • Preserve and protect the wild nature places
  • Minimum population long-term viability of a species
  • Rebuilding of the species to sustainable levels
  • Engendered imminent danger or extinct species

Question 52

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Yellowstone National Park
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  • Fist area protect wild nature
  • First National Park in the world
  • Wildlife and wilderness.
  • how many needs to increase?
  • Rebuilding of the species to sustainable levels

Question 53

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Designed Yellowstone Park
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  • President Ulysses Grant 1872
  • Recreation, Historic, Conservation, Pristine, inviolable.
  • Single Large or Several Small

Question 54

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Shape and size of preserves
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  • Recreation, Historic, Conservation, Pristine , inviolable.
  • inviolable.Pristine Recreation, Historic, Conservation
  • Recreation, Historic, Pristine , inviolable. Conservation,

Question 55

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SLOSS
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  • Single Large or Several Small
  • Destructive harvest method.
  • Connected areas

Question 56

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Core habitat:
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  • Destructive harvest method.
  • Connected areas

Question 57

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Coral Reefs:
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  • Temperature change. Fishing method. Coral mining. Human disturbance.
  • Destructive harvest method.

Question 58

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Coral Reefs
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  • Temperature change. Fishing method. Coral mining. Human disturbance.
  • Excessively large ungulate populations degraded the range of massive die-off occurred in severe winters

Question 59

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How long have they existed and how important are parks, preserves, and marine preserves?
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  • 130 years begun preserve wild places.
  • Park: President Ulysses Grant 1872

Question 60

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Why has parks eliminated “bad” animals for “good” ones?
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  • To create an illusion balance of a natural system into the ecosystem. Excessively large populations.
  • Fist area protect wild nature. First National Park in the world. Wildlife and wilderness.
  • Minimum population long-term viability of a species- how many needs to increase?
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