Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Conservation of ecosystems: Module 6, Part 7 (mindmap)
- Preservation is different!!
- Keeping ecoystems
the same, whilst
protecting them
- Nothing is removed
from it
- What is conservation?
- Management
of natural
resources
- Natural
resources that
can still be
used, without
them running
out
- Social
- Attractions and
activates
- Economical
- Drugs / food / clothes
- Dynamic process -
constantly
changing
- Ethical
- Morals / human activity
- What's Sustainability?
- Ensure resources that are taken
today, but without reducing the
ability for people in the future
for their needs
- Ways of sustainability on land
- Small patches cut down
- Coppicing
- Cutting trees in a way to let them grow back
- Not planted close together;
avoiding competition
- Sticks for support and
tubes to stop bugs
(herbivory)
- Native species,
rather than
non-native
- Overfishing???
- decline in some fish
species because of
overfishing
- Mesh size of nets
- International
agreements
- Common fisheries policy
- Fishing quotes
- Limited catch of species of fish
- From scientific study (population size)
- Human activities on ecosystems
- Humans introduced
non-native animals,
killing the native
ones (i.e. grey
squirrel)
- Non native plants
compete with native
plant species
- Eradication programs can be
introduced / public follow set of
rules
- Examples
- The Galapagos islands
- Antarctica
- Lake district /
Snowdonia
national parks
- If you get stuck on a question, remember.....
- Human activity
- Sustainability
- Conservation