Keywords for BIO 464 Presentations on BIODIVERSITY, January 19, 2012
Take home for each of you in the audience: What does this term mean? Is it relevant to my
Case Study? If yes, how is it relevant?
Deepka Duggal – Atlantic Forest of Brazil
Biodiversity Hotspot
http://www.biodiversityhotspots.org/xp/hotspots/hotspotsscience/Pages/hotspots_defined.aspx
Corridors and fragment size in maintaining species abundance and diversity
Elevational gradient
Ecozones
Vertical stratification
Dung beetle as Keystone Species
Niche specialization
Biofuels and land use conversion
Sara Iannuzzi – Madagascar
Political situation in Madagascar as of today, January 22 –
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/22/world/africa/madagascars-ousted-president-is-rebuffed-inbid-to-return.html?_r=1&scp=2&sq=Madagascar&st=cse
http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/r/andry_rajoelina/index.html?scp=5&
sq=Madagascar&st=cse
Biodiversity Hotspot
Remnants (habitat fragments) as many, small, critical biodiversity hotspots – GREAT MAP
http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2010/09/madagascar/madagascar-map#
Habitat fragments, matrix, and corridors
Resistance
Resilience
Littoral forest
Taxonomic richness
Windward and leeward
Mangrove
Bushmeat
Cassandra Malideniya – Sri Lanka
Biodiversity hotspot and relationship between island and mainland hotspots
Cascade effects of extinction/ extinction cascades
Monsoon
Dipterocarps
Chytridiomycosis
Amphibian decline
Wet zone versus dry zone
Anna Kostetska – Costa Rica
Biodiversity hotspot
Mesoamerican land bridge
Alpha, beta and gamma diversity
Keystone species
Keystone resources
Botrachochytrium dendrobatidis and Amphibian decline
http://www.bd-maps.net/surveillance/
http://www.bd-maps.net/maps/
http://www.bd-maps.net/
Migratory species and conservation
REDD
Pollinator and gene flow among the plants that are pollinated by the pollinator species
Ramon Nagesan – New Zealand
Biodiversity hotspot
Island Biogeography Model and specific value of “S” for your Case Study site – Are
immigration and extinction equally important for your personal site? Would they come into
equilibrium?
Archipelago
Split from Gondwanaland
Ancient life raft
Temperate rainforest
Living fossils
Bottleneck (as result of genetic drift)
Gigantism and flightlessness
Kakapo – lots of information and films of this flightless, long-lived, giant endemic parrot – great
text and links to films on the Wikipedia site below!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kakapo
Olga Tkachenko – Galapagos
Adaptive radiation
Humboldt current
El Niño
Teleconnection
Resistance
Resilience
Biotic homogenization
The anthropocene versus the homogocene
http://www.pnas.org/content/108/44/18003.abstract
http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/01/19/how-humans-spread-both-ecological-disruptionand-diversity/?scp=2&sq=anthropocene&st=cse