Annotations ch 9-11

CH9

• uislands bc gov law that engoarged farmers to deforeest but scientists saw oppurtunity for controlled experiment 
• fragmwntologist
• 50 000 000 square miles are ice free
• half of his land to cropland and pasture cities hopping mals etc
• 3/5 of remaining is forrest 
• rest is high mountains tundra or desrt
• im confused about why anthromes are a better clasification than bioms
• one road becomes branches of deforestation
• ring and fling band and release
• for first year popoulation of birds i deforested raea  join and bigger
• keeps on dropping (number and variety)
• bc more mpetition for fewer recorces
• keps on going down
• islands tend to be specis poor
• smaller populations ae morevunerable to hance
• smaller popultaion means that there is a bigger effect of mall casue s on the population
• smal populations lead to local extintion
• also corerates with speciation
• many species in relsation with army ants
• the tropics were home to as many as thirty million species of arthropods.
• much more than number of bird or mammal species
• very fast species lost due to habitat rduction
• ther is  lag to the process
• hard to know but bc populations remain but will eithersurvive or die iff due to chance
• if we cut the forrests up we wil lose bith flora and fauna
• arnt enough colonie sof ants to support birds when some go into satatr y phase
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