Conservation and Restoration Ecology: Crash Course Ecology #12

2013-01-21

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Hank wraps up Crash Course Ecology by taking a look at the growing fields of conservation biology and restoration ecology, which use all the moves we've learned about in the past eleven weeks, and applies them to protecting ecosystems and to cleaning up the messes that we've already made.

Table of Contents

1) Types of Diversity 3:00

2) Conservation Biology 4:12

A) Small Population Conservation 4:26

B) Declining Population Conservation 5:50

3) Restoration Ecology 7:06

A) Structural Restoration 7:30

B) Bioremediation 7:48

C) Biological Augmentation 8:03

References:

http://www.envirocon.com/capabilities/projects/milltown.shtml

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milltown_Reservoir_Superfund_Site

http://www.montanariveraction.org/milltown.dam.html

http://www.fs.fed.us/cnpz/forest/documents/sup_docs/sust_ecol_sustn_intro.htm

http://agroforestry.net/overstory/overstory65.html

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