Ecology 7th Edition by Manuel Molles

Exercise 7

Ecologists predict that global diversity is threatened by land use change and by the reductions in habitat area and the fragmentation that accompany land use change. Vitousek (1994) suggested that land use change may be the greatest current threat to biological diversity (see fig. 23.3 ). What role do studies of diversity on islands and species area relationships on continents (see chapter 22) play in these predictions