Biology 1st Edition by Jerome Krueger, Kendra Hill, Robert Noyd

Exercise 7

The country of Brazil has set an ambitious goal that, by the year 2015, it will reduce deforestation rates in the Amazon rainforest by 80% of the rates recorded in 2005. Predict what effect this will have on ecosystem-wide biodiversity.
A) It should rapidly increase by 2015.
B) The rate of biodiversity loss should decrease by 2015.
C) Loss of biodiversity should stop in 2015.
D) Rates of biodiversity should continue to rise slowly beyond 2015.