carry flows only during the rainy season. The lagoon has rich flora and fauna diversity‚ which supports active commercial fisheries and a large and varied bird population.The lake has rich fish diversity‚ mostly marine species‚ some truly brackish water and a few freshwater species. Mullets and Catfish are the major brackish water fish‚ which have supported sustenance fishing for the lake fishermen. The highest concentrations of flamingo are found in the periphery of the lagoon where the water level
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The Rattus Rattus (black rat) is one of the most problematic invasive species in the world. Covering 80% of all archipelagos and are found on six continents. Black rats are mainly found on tropical islands such as the Galapagos‚ Hawaii and most of the islands in Central America. Rats prefer to live in areas filled with forests and shrubland‚ but can live on minimal vegetation. Scientists have been able to exterminate this invasive species from most temperate and sub Atlantic islands because of the
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amount of plants and animals. The Everglades faces many problems‚ such as invasive species and pollution. Not only do the plants and animals that live there benefit from the Everglades‚ but humans do too. It is important that the Florida Everglades remains a healthy ecosystem. The Florida Everglades has biodiversity‚ it benefits humans‚ and it houses many endangered species. Biodiversity means that there are many different species in an ecosystem. The Everglades has biodiversity‚ which is good for food
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Carl Sagan asked‚ based on his cosmic calendar‚ “Where would you place your own life on this timeline? Where would you place the life of one of your grandparents? What is the major disadvantage of a time line drawn to this scale? What is its advantage?” To answer his questions about where your life or the life of your loved ones would fall‚ signifies a miniscule amount of time relative to the time line of human history. You simply couldn’t place the life of any single human on this cosmic calendar
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and/ or species within an ecosystem. The loss of biodeversity would be the diminishing of dfferent species within that ecosystem. For example‚ a lake may be the home to many types of fish. A change in the lake’s temperature or chemistry may affect a food source for a certain type of fish. This type of fish may die out and leave the lake with one less species in it. The loss of one fish or food source may impact other populations and furthe diminish species diversity. Cause Invasive Species - plants
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Florida has the worst problem with invasive reptiles and amphibians. Burmese pythons were first found in Florida around 1979. It is believed that the snakes were originally pets that were either dumped or escaped to the Everglades. These pythons are well adapted to live in Florida‚ the environment here is similar to their Southeast Asian home. Pythons were determined to be and established species in 2000. Burmese Pythons can live 15 to 25 years. Female pythons can carry a clutch of up to 100
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their previous habitat was too crowded‚ didn’t have enough food and had too much competition. Reasons for a sudden decrease could be that the animals emigrated somewhere else‚ too much competition in that area‚ died of disease or that there were invasive species using up all the resources and they would know about these reasons if they were to look at our
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that‚ DNA barcoding has been developed. DNA barcoding is an important tool in categorizing the taxa of different species and it tells so much about the species’ traits‚ including genetic diversity. The Pomacea canaliculata was introduced in different parts of Asia and had been an invasive species and a pest in different ecosystems ever since the introduction. In understanding this species of snails‚ samples were collected‚ DNA’s were extracted‚ undergone PCR and electrophoresis‚ and was sequenced and
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As a renowned children’s book author‚ Doctor Seuss had a vivid imagination of his characters‚ and his books contained valuable morals. This children’s book‚ Horton Hears a Who‚ is about an elephant saving an entire community of people on a flower from his town. Horton is unable to see the micro people that he claims live on a flower‚ which makes Horton’s town think he is insane. The miniature people realize that Horton is the only one able to hear them‚ and that the others in Horton’s town won’t
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: Division: Class: Sub-class: Order : Family : Subfamily : Tribe : Genus : Species : Plantae Angiosperms Eudicots Rosids Sapindales Rutaceae Aurantioideae Clauseneae Aegle A. marmelos Bael (Aegle marmelos)‚ also known as Bengal quince‚ golden apple‚ stone apple‚ wood apple‚ bili‚ is a species of tree native to India. It is present throughout Southeast Asia as a naturalized species. The tree is considered to be sacred by Hindus. Its fruits are used in traditional medicine
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