Diana fritillary on wild quinine.
This document serves as a teaching guide for the second of three seminars in a unit on biodiversity. This seminar focuses on the concept of "ecosystem services" and the importance of biodiversity to ecosystem function. The guide includes an overview, reading list, and step-by-step seminar plan, including suggested discussion questions. Related seminar activities and assignment questions are provided in accompanying files.
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Keywords
- agriculture
- anthropogenic
- arthropod
- atmosphere
- bat
- bee
- biodiversity
- biome
- calculation
- climate
- coevolution
- competition
- conservation
- cycle
- decay
- deforestation
- depletion
- ecology
- economy
- ecosystem services
- edge effect
- erosion
- evolution
- extinction
- farming
- fisheries
- flower
- flux
- fragment
- gambler's ruin
- gamete
- GDP
- gene
- genetic
- heterozygosity
- hotspot
- inbreeding
- landscape
- logging
- loss
- management
- maturation
- microbe
- mimicry
- monoculture
- mutualism
- nutrient
- olfaction
- organic
- outcrossing
- overpopulation
- parasite
- pesticide
- policy
- pollen
- pollination
- pollution
- polymorphism
- population
- rainforest
- runoff
- scale
- sewage
- sex
- sexual reproduction
- soil
- species
- stochasticity
- sustainable
- valuation
- variation
- vector
- watershed
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