Sustaining Terrestrial Biodiversity
Biodiversity in Indonesia
18,000+ islands6,000 inhabited
Land being cleared by illegal logging and conversion to palm oil plantations
Estimated %50 of forests cleared%70 mangrove forests
Home to 129 active volcanoes, most of any nation
Javan tiger probably extinct, Sumatra tiger fighting for survival
Fig. 10-1, p. 214
Almost extinct in 1974, listed as protected and endangered
41 animals reintroduced into their former habitat in Yellowstone National Park
2007- about 171 gray wolves in the park
Fig. 10-2a, p. 216
Old growth forest in Washington’s Olympic National Forest
Fig. 10-2b, p. 216
Old growth tropical rain forest in Queensland, Australia
Fig. 10-3a, p. 216
Fig. 10-3b, p. 216
Fig. 10-4, p. 217
Fig. 10-5, p. 218
New highway
Cleared plots for grazing
HighwayCleared plots for agriculture
Old growth
Fragmentation
Fig. 10-6a, p. 219
(a) Selective cutting
Clear stream
Fig. 10-6b, p. 219
(b) Clear-cutting
Muddy stream
Fig. 10-6c, p. 219
(c) Strip cutting UncutCut 1 year ago
Dirt road
Cut 3–10 years ago
Uncut
Clear stream
Fig. 10-6a, p. 219
Stepped Art
(b) Clear-cutting
Muddy stream
UncutCut 1 year ago
Dirt road
Cut 3–10 years ago
Uncut
Clear stream
(a) Selective cutting
(c) Strip cutting
Clear stream
Fig. 10-7, p. 219
Clear cutting in Washington
Fig. 10-8, p. 220
Fig. 10-11, p. 222
Tropical deforestation, Thailand
Fig. 10-13a, p. 224
Amazon forest, Brazil 1975
Fig. 10-13b, p. 224
2001
Fig. 10-14a, p. 224
Endangered white ukariLives in tropical forests of Brazil
Fig. 10-12, p. 223
Fig. 10-9a, p. 220
Fig. 10-10, p. 221
White pine blister rust Pine shoot beetle Beech bark disease
Sudden oak death
Hemlock woolly adelgid
Fig. 10-15, p. 225
Fig. 10-16, p. 226
Burning for agriculture and livestock use
Fig. 10-17, p. 227
Fig. 10-18, p. 229
Kenaf, used for making paper
Sustainable replacement for using old growth forests to make paper
Fig. 10-19, p. 231
Fig. 10-20, p. 232
Fig. 10-21a, p. 233
San Pedros river Arizona
Fig. 10-21b, p. 233
10 yrs later
Fig. 10-22, p. 234
Fig. 10-26, p. 241
Fig. 10-27, p. 241
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