Concept Мapping CHAPTER 5: Threats to Biodiversity Complete the network tree about ways that biodiversity can be threatened. These terms may be used more than once: acid precipitation, clearing tropical rain forests, ecosystem, genetic diversity, pollution, species. Habitats can be damaged by 1. destruction fragmentation disruption such as which in which the decline of a 2. 3. spread by reduces affects the entire 4. 5. 6. of underwater increases habitatş by eutrophication edge effects

Concept Мapping CHAPTER 5: Threats to Biodiversity Complete the network tree about ways that biodiversity can be threatened. These terms may be used more than once: acid precipitation, clearing tropical rain forests, ecosystem, genetic diversity, pollution, species. Habitats can be damaged by 1. destruction fragmentation disruption such as which in which the decline of a 2. 3. spread by reduces affects the entire 4. 5. 6. of underwater increases habitatş by eutrophication edge effects

Biology: The Dynamic Science (MindTap Course List)

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ISBN:9781305389892

Author:Peter J. Russell, Paul E. Hertz, Beverly McMillan

Publisher:Peter J. Russell, Paul E. Hertz, Beverly McMillan

Chapter55: Biodiversity And Conservation Biology

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