BIODIVERSITY

LOSS
S CI E NCE 9
What is
LOSS OF BIODIVERSITY?

Diminishing
biodiversity
within an
organisms and
their environment
What is
LOSS OF BIODIVERSITY?

described the
decrease in number
of species, its variety
and the biological
communities in a
given area
 IF THE VARIETY OF
SPECIES WILL NO
LONGER EXIST, THIS
WILL LEAD TO THE
FAILURE OF ECOSYSTEM
TO FUNCTION
 BIODIVERSITY IS
FREQUENTLY
ASSOCIATED WITH
SPECIES RICHNESS AND
ABUNDANCE (Number
of species in an area)
BIODIVERSITY SPECIES
LOSS EXTINCTION
WHY DO
YOU THINK
SPECIES
BECOME
EXTINCT?
DO YOU
THINK WE
ARE
RESPONSIBLE
FOR THE
EXTINCTION
OF SPECIES
 WE ARE
USING OUR
NATURAL
RESOURCES
EVERYDAY
ARE YOU
USING
YOUR
NATURAL
RESOURCES
WISELY?
DO YOU THINK
THAT THERE
WILL COME A
TIME THAT
THESE
RESOURCES
WILL NO
LONGER BE
AVAILABLE TO
YOU?
ENVIRONMENTAL
PROBLEMS/
THREATS
 ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEMS/
THREATS

HABITAT LOSS INVASIVE SPECIES OVERHARVESTING

WATER POLLUTION AIR POLLUTION CLIMATE CHANGE

 What is
HABITAT LOSS?
• destruction of an
existing natural habitat
• decreases/ eliminates
the sources of food/
living space for most
species
 What is
HABITAT LOSS?
• major cause of
wildlife depletion

example: cutting trees

(deforestation)
DIFFERENT CAUSES OF
DEFORESTATION
• Illegal logging
• kaingin system
• forest fire
• industrial activities
• mining
• agricultural conversion
to housing
 What is
INVASIVE SPECIES?
• an organism that is
not natural or
belonging to a
particular area
example: water
hyacinth
 What is
OVERHARVESTING?
• harvesting renewable
resources to the point
of decreasing in
number
• also called
overexploitation
 FRESHwater fishes monthly harvest, current
populations and population growth
10,000

7,500

5,000

2,500

0
Milkfish St. Peter's Mackere Catfish
Fish l
 What is
OVERHARVESTING?
• overharvesting resources
for a long period of time
can decrease natural
resources to the extent
where they are not
capable to recover within
a short period of time.
 What is
WATER POLLUTION?
• happens when
unwanted foreign
substances are
introduced into natural
water
example: eutrophication
DIFFERENT EFFECTS OF
WATER POLLUTION
• depletion of dissolved
oxygen
(eutrophication)
• promotes growth of
algae (eutrophication)
• fish kill (mass death)
• overturn (rainy season)
 What is
AIR POLLUTION?
• happens when harmful
gases mixed with the air
we breath.
example: nitrogen
dioxide, sulphur oxide
(acid rain)
 CLIMATE CHANGE
associated with
global warming
• CLIMATE CHANGE-
long-term shifts in
temperatures and
weather patterns
• GLOBAL WARMING-
increase in the
temperature of earth
 IMPACT OF CLIMATE CHANGE with
GLOBAL WARMING ON BIODIVERSITY
• species move with their own adaptive
climate
• timing: seasonal food and breeding time
• possibility of too many salt water and
shortage of fresh water
• raise of ocean level, entire island will
disappear
 most
environmental
issues nowadays
are caused by
human activities
 CHALLENGE
make sure the needed
resources for
survival of the living
things be available in
the future
 SUSTAINABLE
SOCIETY
USE OF
RATE OF
RENEWABLE
GENERATION
RESOURCES