Saturday, August 21, 2010

Effects of Biodiversity on Land and Soil Use, Wildlife, Forestry and Aquatics? or Vice-Versa!?

Hi...Please help me. I am doing a project, it involves biodiversity and its effects on the land and soil use, wildlife, forestry, and aquatics? How do these wildlife quatics forestry and land and soil use effect biodiversity? What are the threats currently faced by these different biodiversitys...wildlife bio...and so on. Please help me and provide some solutions to these threats





ThanxEffects of Biodiversity on Land and Soil Use, Wildlife, Forestry and Aquatics? or Vice-Versa!?
Land and soil


http://www.dse.vic.gov.au/DSE/nrence.nsf鈥?/a>


http://www.epa.gov/climatechange/effects鈥?/a>





Wildlife and animals


http://www.epa.gov/climatechange/effects鈥?/a>





Coral Reefs


http://www.epa.gov/climatechange/effects鈥?/a>Effects of Biodiversity on Land and Soil Use, Wildlife, Forestry and Aquatics? or Vice-Versa!?
The main threat to biodiversity is the ever increasing human population. Humans clear land for agriculture, roads, and cities. The middle US has lost almost all of it's native prairie land in favor of agriculture. A native prairie could support more than 300 species of plants, whereas a farm supports only one species (usually corn). Habitat loss goes along with this transformation of land. We are losing habitat for birds, amphibians, mammals, insects, and other animals.





Our cities pollute a lot. This pollution can runoff directly into the soils and water, or it can volatilize (turn to gas) and come down in rain (acid rain and nitrogen deposition). Many pollutants are synthetic chemicals that can kill animals and plants or influence their behavior. Some pollutants are nutrients and, although nutrients may be good for certain plants, they are generally bad for the ecosystem as a whole. A massive amount of nutrients added to an ecosystem will dramatic change how that ecosystem functions and will affect all the organisms living there.





One solution is to set aside land for conservation and actively restore ecosystems that have been degraded.

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