Biology: Life on Earth with Physiology Plus Mastering Biology with Pearson eText -- Access Card Package (11th Edition)
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ISBN: 9780133910605
Author: Gerald Audesirk, Teresa Audesirk, Bruce E. Byers
Publisher: PEARSON
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Chapter 31.1, Problem 2CYL
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The importance of three levels of biodiversity that conservation biologists study and seek to protect.
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Biodiversity represents a habitat where the entire living organism like plants, animals, humans, and microorganism live together.
Three level of biodiversity is genetic biodiversity, species biodiversity, and ecosystem biodiversity.
The important role of these three levels of biodiversity is to maintain the balance of the ecosystem, the habitat of species, and food chain and food web.
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Biology: Life on Earth with Physiology Plus Mastering Biology with Pearson eText -- Access Card Package (11th Edition)
Ch. 31.1 - describe the goals of conversation biology?Ch. 31.1 - Prob. 2CYLCh. 31.2 - Prob. 1CSCCh. 31.2 - describe the major categories of ecosystem...Ch. 31.2 - Prob. 1TCCh. 31.2 - Prob. 2CYLCh. 31.3 - define mass extinction?Ch. 31.3 - Prob. 1HYEWCh. 31.3 - explain why biologists fear that a mass extinction...Ch. 31.4 - Prob. 1CSC
Ch. 31.4 - Prob. 1CYLCh. 31.4 - Prob. 1TCCh. 31.4 - Prob. 2CYLCh. 31.5 - Prob. 1CSCCh. 31.5 - Prob. 1CYLCh. 31.5 - Prob. 1TCCh. 31.5 - Prob. 2CYLCh. 31.6 - Before 1700, wolves roamed over almost all of...Ch. 31.6 - describe the principles of sustainable...Ch. 31.6 - In 1970, Atlantic leatherback sea turtle...Ch. 31.6 - explain how population, technology, and lifestyle...Ch. 31 - List some reasons that the ecological footprints...Ch. 31 - Prob. 1FIBCh. 31 - A factor that increases humanity ecological...Ch. 31 - Prob. 1RQCh. 31 - Search for and describe some examples of habitat...Ch. 31 - Prob. 2FIBCh. 31 - Prob. 2MCCh. 31 - What is ecological economics? Why is it important?Ch. 31 - Prob. 3FIBCh. 31 - Prob. 3MCCh. 31 - Prob. 3RQCh. 31 - Prob. 4FIBCh. 31 - Prob. 4MCCh. 31 - Prob. 4RQCh. 31 - The smallest population of a species that is...Ch. 31 - Which of the following is not true of a population...Ch. 31 - Why are efforts to protect monarch butterflies a...Ch. 31 - A Native American saying tells us that We do not...
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