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Threats to biodiversity — Homework
Name the specific HIPPCO category for every scenario, not just "human impact."
- 1.Classify: an island bird population collapses after rats arrive on cargo ships.
- 2.Classify: a river's fish population crashes after decades of unregulated commercial overfishing.
- 3.Explain why habitat fragmentation can be more damaging than the same total habitat loss concentrated in one place.
- 4.Using the passenger pigeon case (an estimated 3 to 5 billion birds in the early 1800s, extinct by 1914), name the two main HIPPCO categories responsible.
- 5.Describe a real or plausible example of habitat fragmentation you have seen (a road through a forest, a new development splitting a field), and explain what edge effects it likely creates.
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