PPT-Biodiversity: Genetic Variation & Habitat Loss

Wednesday February 1 st 2017 amp Friday February 3 rd 2017 WHAT CAN WE DO Eight Priorities for Protecting Biodiversity Take immediate action to preserve worlds biological hot spots. Possingham and David Pannell. ARC Laureate Fellows. The . University of . Queensland and The University of Western Australia. National . Environmental Research Program hub for . Environmental Decisions . Win . Maung. Chairman. Myanmar Environment Institute (MEI). To . protect . ecosystem services, biodiversity conservation is . essential. -(. supporting services. —e.g. nutrient cycling, soil formation, primary production; . Objectives:. Define the terms . extinction. , . extirpation. and . mass extinction. .. Contrast background extinction rates and periods of mass extinction.. Evaluate the primary causes of biodiversity loss.. By . Vaibhavi Apte. Biodiversity ???. Diversity = variety. Bio= living. Thus, variability among living organisms from all sources including inter alia, terrestrial, marine & other aquatic ecosystems and ecological complexes of which they are part of. . Image from about.com . meiosis_metaphase_1.jpg. . Mutations. (changes in an organism’s DNA) are the . original. . source of . all. genetic variation. Mutations create different versions of genes called . It is the variety of all the different living things and their homes on the planet. . BIO. . DIVERSITY. Bio= biological organisms . -living things!. diversity= the amount of variation. Overpopulation. Targeting the causes of biodiversity loss: Overpopulation control. Deforestation. Over-harvesting. Habitat modification. Household. Energy. Food. Human needs. To many humans. Wealth. Corruption. Your Subtitle Goes Here. Introduction. Two objectives:. Major concepts related to human genetic variation.. Relationship between basic biomedical research and the improvement of personal and public health.. Unit 3: Resource Sustainability. What is Biodiversity?. Short for “biological diversity,” is the number of different species in a given area. Biodiversity hotspots. Why is it important? Why should we care? . ANGGOTA KELOMPOK. SRI YUNIARTININGSIH (P2BA10009). YAYUK SUGIYARTI (P2BA10025). IHDA SYFAI (P2BA10010). Origins of Genetic Variation Among Offspring. The behavior of chromosomes during meiosis and fertilization is responsible for most of the variation that arises in each generation. Jode Edwards, USDA ARS. Dustin Mclean, University of . Guleph. Yunfei. Jiang, University of Guelph. Elizabeth, Lee, University of Guelph. Mark Mikel, University of Illinois. Martin Bohn, University of Illinois. BMI/CS 776 . www.biostat.wisc.edu/bmi776/. Spring 2022. Daifeng. Wang. daifeng.wang@wisc.edu. These slides, excluding third-party material, are licensed under . CC BY-NC 4.0. . by Mark Craven, Colin Dewey, Anthony . Biodiversity at regional level is better understood by categorizing species richness into four types. . Whittaker (1972). described three terms for measuring biodiversity over spatial scales: . alpha, beta, and gamma diversity. An Introduction. William Dommett MSc MCIEEM – District Ecologist. Introduction – What is Biodiversity Net Gain (BNG). Biodiversity net gain (BNG) is an approach to development, and/or land management, that aims to leave the natural environment in a measurably better state than it was beforehand.