![]() ![]() Recent research shows first creating protected areas, diversity is priceless … that the level of immigration ecologists debated the optimum Edward O. ![]() young trees emerged in 1887 Nature reserves and national parks I will argue that every various insect species, and a were seen as “islands” in landscapes scrap of biological single lizard, were discovered altered by human activity. The first began to apply it to conservation. By 1886, mosses, example, allowing animal movement algae, flowering plants, and Conservation practices and enabling viable populations to ferns had returned to Krakatau, Soon after the island biogeography survive-without requiring a great borne either on the wind or as theory was developed, ecologists expansion of protected areas. maintain ecological processes-for Panjang. ![]() These link areas of flora and fauna on the island extinction rates rather than to suitable habitat, which helps and nearby Sertung and provide habitats for new species. ecologists coupled their findings In 1883, volcanic eruptions with data on population sizes, they activity, the island theory has also devastated the Indonesian calculated that an increased size of encouraged the creation of wildlife island of Krakatau, wiping out parkland acts primarily to reduce corridors. Its checklist includes 134 bird species, The rebirth of Area was the best predictor of 197 insect, 9 mammal, 5 reptile, 59 Krakatau species richness, but when the fungi, and 441 plant species. Ecologists also studied the diversity Central Park in Manhattan, New York ECOSYSTEMS 149 of beetles and flies in nine parks of City, is an “island” in an urban setting. ![]()
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