Why is the environmental water flow measure important?(Please select one answer)
A. It indicates the amount of water that is needed in a river to keep it from becoming overly enriched with nutrients (a process known as eutrophication)
B. It indicates the amount of water that is currently in river basins worldwide
C. It indicates how much water in rivers systems is available to be used for agriculture
D. It indicates an estimate of the minimum amount of water that is needed in our river systems to keep ecosystems functioning
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According to Professor Rockström, what are examples of management implications of the connections between land use and water use? (Select two correct answers)
A. Land use must be managed independently of water use
B. Land use and water use must be managed interdependently
C. Land use must be managed locally whether or not a precipitation shed is present as there is no connection between land and rainfall patterns
D. Land use must be properly managed at large scales in order to account for precipitation sheds which govern rainfall over large areas.
E. Land use does not directly influence water use
Select the three ways by which biodiversity loss can erode ecosystem resilience:(Please select three answers)
A. Decreases the amount of available freshwater
B. Reduces the diversity of genetic material
C. Increases the risk of wild fires
D. Reduces the number of species that perform the same functions (functional redundancy
E. Increases in the number of pollinators in ecosystems
F. Increases the vulnerability of ecosystems
What must be considered when thinking about the process of biodiversity loss?Based on the video lecture, choose the two that best apply. (Choose the two that best apply)
A. Local ecosystem dynamics of a particular species
B. Annual seasonal changes in a particular region
C. Genetic diversity across all ecosystems worldwide
D. Functional diversity and climate change impacts on ecosystems
E. Regional impacts of removing one species from an ecosystem
Professor Rockström mentioned two key components of biodiversity: genetic diversity and functional diversity. Genetic diversity is diversity of the genetic code of a species, whereas functional diversity is…(Please select one answer)
A. …the diversity of functional coding process of the genome of one individual species
B. …the diversity of ecological processes that species perform in an ecosystem
C. …the diversity of a single species individual ways of performing a process
D. …simply an extension of biodiversity loss
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