Threats to Biodiversity

Threats to Biodiversity

This text discusses habitat loss, preventing habitat destruction with wise wood choices, overharvesting, exotic species, and climate change . Advanced Placement® and AP® are trademarks registered and/or owned by the College Board, which is not affiliated with, and does not endorse, this textbook.

Topics

  • adaptive radiation biodiversity
  • biodiversity hotspot
  • bush meat
  • chemical diversity chytridiomycosis
  • DNA barcoding
  • ecosystem diversity
  • endemic species
  • exotic species
  • extinction
  • extinction rate
  • genetic diversity
  • heterogeneity
  • megafauna
  • secondary plant
  • compound
  • species-area
  • relationship
  • tragedy of the commons
  • white-nose syndrome
  • bioethics
  • chytridiomycosis
  • habitat loss
  • over-harvesting
  • threats to biodiversity
  • wood products
  • conservation
  • biodiversity
  • climate change