Question

1. Modern conservation ecologists are often working to protect and improve the status of rare and endangered species. To do so, it is essential to understand organismal biology, population, and small and large-scale patterns of these species. (A.) Explain how these factors could influence rarity. (B.) Finally, discuss how fragmentation could cause problems for rare and endangered species?

Answer 1

1. When certain species loss their habitat, as a result, they will face difficulty in survival and finally leads to death, atlast that particular species will get endangered. Good knowledge about particular species along with their habitat, population, biology etc will helps in protecting the species by conserving its habitat, by doing so, it helps prevent the extinction of species. It also help to increase the population of particular species.

2. Fragmentation will decrease the gene flow and result in interbreeding depression, leads to extinction of species. Fragmentation can happen naturally like forest fire or can be due to human activities like deforestation. Fragmentation will also decrease the genetic variation between organism.