Lecture 13 - November 12, 2009 |
Essential |
Background |
Outline
- biodiversity
- efforts to promote depend on scale
- interactions between scale
Using viewers and Multiple Perspectives
Life lessons that our grandmas taught us:
One size does not fit all.
Mini-quiz - you need to know:
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biodiversity
- review where we've seen this
- genetic adaptation
- mechanisms for generating diversity
- natural selection
- value of biodiversity
- utilitarian, conservation ethic, esthetics, rights
- world views
- land ethic
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natural selection mechamisms
four world views
land ethic |
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scale and the resiliency cycle
- intermediate disturbance hypothesis and biodiversity
- resiliency cycle
- panarchy
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intermediate disturbance hyp
panarchy |
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comparison of biodiversity plans
- Metro (30 miles across)
- Oregon (300 miles across)
- Costa Rica national plan
(3 time scales)
- Guanacaste plan (as an example of success)
- importance of hot spots
- Meyers proposal
- many millions of $ to save 1% or 5% of land
- controversy
- Wilsons steps - 1st step is preserve hotspots
- small plots (in Portland)
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conservation plans
Costa Rica national parks
hotspots
our wiki |
Yellowstone
National wildlife foundation
map GYE |
Some techniques and technology that are being studied
- cooridors
- incentive plans for private land owners
- public lands can't provide all the habitat
- types of private land promote biodiversity
- agriculture
- forest
- developed - urban and suburban
- conservation land
- cross landscape
- natural - rivers etc.
- roads and utility lines
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Yellowstone cooridor
Boise cooridor ppt
stewardship
OR stewardship |
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