Biological Diversity

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Biological Diversity
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The Most Vulnerable

• Microendemics
• Relic species
• Species with small populations
• Slow reproducers
• Species that have evolved in isolation

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Species Protection

• Endangered Species Act 1973
• Endangered Species
• Threatened Species
• What is the broader problem?

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Carroll Country

• Stippled Studfish Fundulus bifax - Endangered
• Restricted distribution and are extremely rare.
• Habitat loss due to dam and reservoir
  construction, habitat degradation, and poor water
  quality.

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Carroll County

• White Fringeless Orchid Platanthera integrilabia
  Threatened

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Carroll Country

• Piedmont barren strawberryWaldsteinia lobata -
  threatened

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Georgia

• Red-cockaded woodpeckerPicoides borealis -
  Endangered

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Georgia

• Eastern indigo snakeDrymarchon corais couperi -
  Threatened

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Georgia

• Gopher tortoise Gopherus polyphemus - Threatened

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Zoos

• 1860 Central Park Zoo
• 1970s conservation movement

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Conservation Movement

• Conservation Programs focus on open space
• Integrated Conservation-Development Projects

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Landscape Ecology

• Subfield of Geography
• SLOSS
• Importance of corridors

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Barriers
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Fragmentation