1. Habitat Loss Orange County, California

2. Dingo Fence – The World’s Longest – New South Wales

3. The Dingo – Canis familiarus dingo

5. Earth, Fire, and Water

6. Erosion and loss of habitat on Round Island, Mauritius

7. Maori Use of Fire

8. Smokey the bear - 1953

9. Smokey the Bear - 1960

10. Longleaf Pine Savanna

12. Fire – Bitterroot National Forest, Montana, August 2000

14. Everglades Surface Water Flow

15. Forests and Deforestation Deforestation occurs when forest converted to another type of ecosystem Forests cover less than 6% of the earth’s total surface area Forests are the habitat for the majority of the earth’s known species Forests are being lost faster than they are growing

17. U.S. National Forests (green) and Grasslands (yellow)

18. United States Virgin Forests 1650 1926

21. Global Forest Loss Africa has lost 30% of its forests, Brazil has lost 40%, the Philippines has lost 50% and Europe has lost 70% In developing nations, 10 trees are cut down for every tree planted; in Africa that ratio is 20 to 1 FAO of the UN estimates that 100 million people in 26 countries face acute shortages of firewood

22. Gathering Firewood Kutum, Africa

23. Swidden Agriculture

24. Swidden Agriculture

26. Cattle Ranching Brazil

28. Tropical Dry Forest

29. Desertification Desertification is the conversion of grassland and savanna habitat into relatively sparse, unproductive vegetation The main cause of desertification is overgrazing by livestock

31. Rio Puerco Basin NM

32. Rio Puerco Basin 18851977

33. Rio Puerco Today

34. Overgrazing – Texas and England Left good, right overgrazed

35. Wetlands Wetlands are lands that are transitional between aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems

36. Freshwater Wetland Types

37. General Locations of U.S. Wetlands

39. Crane Species 1. Eurasian Crane, 2. Black-necked crane, 3. Munktrana, 4. Sandhill Crane, 5. Whooping Crane, 6. Japanese crane, 7. White-naped Crane, 8. Sarus Crane, 9. Australian Crane, 10. Siberian Crane, 11. Wattled Crane, 12. Demoiselle Crane, 13. Blue Crane, 14. Black Crowned Crane, 15. Grey Crowned Crane

40. Grey Crowned Crane

42. Habitat Fragmentation Fragmentation is the breakdown of a habitat or ecosystem into smaller patches of that habitat or ecosystem that now are isolated from each other

43. Habitat Fragmentation

44. Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace

45. The Galapagos

46. Galapagos Tortoise

47. Galapagos Mockingbirds

48. Galapagos Mockingbirds collected by Darwin

49. Malay Archipelago

50. Beetles and Moths Collected by A.R. Wallace

51. Butterflies from Malay Archipelago

52. Sphingid Butterfly Diversity Malay Archipelago

53. Island Habitats in Baltic Sea

54. Reptile and Amphibian Species Area Curve for Caribbean Islands

55. Habitat Islands In the Great Basin Bird Species Mammal Species

56. Ant species On New Guinea and Nearby Islands

57. Real Slopes for Species-Area Curves Oceanic islandsbirds - New Guinea islands z=0.22 beetles - West Indiesz=0.34 land plants - Channel islandsz=0.37 Habitat islandsbirds - Andes paramo z=0.29 birds - mtns of Great Basin z=0.165 mammals - mtns of Great Basin z=0.326 inverts -caves in West Virginia z=0.72