Half of the world’s habitable land is used for agriculture Note that when inland water bodies and coastal waters are included, the surface area of the US is 9 8 million km 2 Agricultural land would then be 4 9 times the size of the US This data is also from the UN’s Food and Agricultural Organization Cropland area is around 16 million km 2 (1 6 billion hectares), one-third of 48 million km 2
AP Environmental Science Chapter 11: Biodiversity . . . - Quizlet Study with Quizlet and memorize flashcards containing terms like The phylogenetic species concept emphasizes cladistic relationships among species or taxa regardless if they can _____________ successfully , Choose the species type that is INCORRECTLY matched with its definition A Umbrella = Represents species that are direct ancestors of many other different endangered species B Keystone
The Moral Status of Animals - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy So if an animal has an interest in not suffering, which is arguably a crucial interest, or at least an important one, and a person has an interest in eating that animal when there are other things to eat, meaning that interest is replaceable, then the animal has the stronger interest and it would be wrong to violate that interest by killing the
What species live in and around coral reefs? Coral reefs are also living museums and reflect thousands of years of history Many U S coral reefs were alive and thriving centuries before the European colonization of the nearby shores Some reefs are even older than our old-growth redwood forests
Inordinate Fondness Multiplied and Redistributed: the Number . . . Abstract The number of species on Earth is one of the most fundamental numbers in science, but one that remains highly uncertain Clearly, more species exist than the present number of formally described species (approximately 1 5 million), but projected species numbers differ dramatically among studies Recent estimates range from about 2 million species to approximately 1 trillion, but most
“System in peril”: Average wildlife populations’ size . . . There has been a catastrophic 73% decline in the average size of monitored wildlife populations* in just 50 years (1970-2020), according to WWF’s Living Planet Report (LPR) 2024 The report highlights that the next five years will be crucial for the future of life on Earth as we already have solu