BIOL 1500 Exam 1 Questions and
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Biological Diversity - ✔✔includes all species, genetic variation, and biological
communities and their ecosystem-level interactions
3 goals of conservation biology - ✔✔1. Document biodiversity
2. Investigate human impact
3. Prevent loss of biodiversity
Environmentalism - ✔✔-characterized by political and educational activism
-goal is to protect the natural environment
-view humans as intruders in nature
Conservation Biology - ✔✔-scientific discipline based on biological research
contributes to environmental movement
-natural resources can be used for the betterment of humans, providing they are
properly cared for and managed with a concern for future generations
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, -religious and philosophical beliefs about the relationship between humans and nature
natural/spiritual world are connected
many societies have strong traditions of nature conservation and land protection
Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau - ✔✔-American transcendentalists
-nature was important for human moral and spiritual development
-encouraged each person to find, in Emerson's words, "an original relation to the
universe"
-Emerson/Thoreau sought this relation in solitude amidst nature, and in their writing
John Muir - ✔✔naturalist, writer, US forest conservation advocate, founded the Sierra
Club, helped establish Sequoia and Yosemite national parks
Gifford Pinchot - ✔✔-Conservationist/politician
-educated the public on conservation issues
-established federal and state policies
-First head of the US forest Service
-increased national forests from 51 mill in 1901 to 175 mill acres by 1910
-Chairman of the national conservation commission
-founded the Yale school of Forestry
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Biological Diversity - ✔✔includes all species, genetic variation, and biological
communities and their ecosystem-level interactions
3 goals of conservation biology - ✔✔1. Document biodiversity
2. Investigate human impact
3. Prevent loss of biodiversity
Environmentalism - ✔✔-characterized by political and educational activism
-goal is to protect the natural environment
-view humans as intruders in nature
Conservation Biology - ✔✔-scientific discipline based on biological research
contributes to environmental movement
-natural resources can be used for the betterment of humans, providing they are
properly cared for and managed with a concern for future generations
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, -religious and philosophical beliefs about the relationship between humans and nature
natural/spiritual world are connected
many societies have strong traditions of nature conservation and land protection
Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau - ✔✔-American transcendentalists
-nature was important for human moral and spiritual development
-encouraged each person to find, in Emerson's words, "an original relation to the
universe"
-Emerson/Thoreau sought this relation in solitude amidst nature, and in their writing
John Muir - ✔✔naturalist, writer, US forest conservation advocate, founded the Sierra
Club, helped establish Sequoia and Yosemite national parks
Gifford Pinchot - ✔✔-Conservationist/politician
-educated the public on conservation issues
-established federal and state policies
-First head of the US forest Service
-increased national forests from 51 mill in 1901 to 175 mill acres by 1910
-Chairman of the national conservation commission
-founded the Yale school of Forestry
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