1answer.
Ask question
Login Signup
Ask question
All categories
  • English
  • Mathematics
  • Social Studies
  • Business
  • History
  • Health
  • Geography
  • Biology
  • Physics
  • Chemistry
  • Computers and Technology
  • Arts
  • World Languages
  • Spanish
  • French
  • German
  • Advanced Placement (AP)
  • SAT
  • Medicine
  • Law
  • Engineering
Neporo4naja [7]
3 years ago
14

Which of the following biotic factors is associated with increasing the capacity of the organisms to move across fragmented land

scapes? Patch size, connectivity,Patch shape, Distance from other landscape patches
Biology
1 answer:
hjlf3 years ago
3 0

Answer:

connectivity

Explanation:

Natural and anthropogenic alterations affect the landscape. The unmeasurable use of the land for farming, cattle industry, buildings, among many other activities, has caused a severe fragmentation in the original landscape that has been seriously affecting biodiversity.    

Fragmentation occurs when a big extension is transformed into many different and smaller patches, separated by another type of cover. You can imagine, for instance, an area used for mono-culturing, which you can see as a homogeneous space of the same texture and color, and small green islands of original vegetation dispersed in this cropped area. These small islands are separated from each other by the crop.

These alterations produce patches or tesserae in the landscape. Patches are relatively homogenous areas with well-defined borders and environmental characteristics very different from those of the surrounding areas. These are like islands. You can think about patches or tesserae as the remaining pieces or units of the original landscape dispersed inside an affected bigger-sized area.

Fragmentation generates a significant loss of physical continuity between the different areas of the original habitat. It might negatively affect biodiversity by decreasing patch sizes, completely isolating them from each other, and increasing the border effect.

Many species can not survive if they are not in the original habitat. Probably they do not find enough food or shelter, or they are very exposed to predation. So they need to stay in the patch. Most of these species are not even adapted to living on the border of the patches. Eventually, fragmented areas can not support some population species that end by dying because they can not survive for a long time in that reduced place. Patches are not suitable to support too many species.

For these reasons, the connection between islands becomes so important.  To allow species to move from one place to the other, interact with other species, reproduce, find food, shelter, avoid predation. In other words, survive.  Connectivity is how the territory makes possible individuals flow or genetic flow, between the different tesserae.

You might be interested in
) Listen
Ierofanga [76]

Answer:

O How can wind be used to generate electricity?

4 0
3 years ago
Read 2 more answers
Why is the Calvin cycle considered a dark reaction?
kogti [31]
<span>Answer D hop you get it </span><span>Answer</span>
5 0
3 years ago
Read 2 more answers
How do plant soak in water for photosynthesis to occur?
Slav-nsk [51]

Answer:

Plants absorb water from the soil by osmosis. Root hair cells are adapted for this by having a large surface area to speed up osmosis. The absorbed water is transported through the roots to the rest of the plant where it's used for different purposes: Photosynthesis

Explanation:

7 0
3 years ago
Read 2 more answers
The science community has taken the following stance on Global Climate change. "Climate change is the single biggest environment
Kay [80]

Answer:

Helper.

Explanation:

I will take the position of helper that work for the betterment of environment by reducing such activities that can increase the carbondioxide concentration in the atmosphere. The main reason for this position is the destruction and damages that occurs in the environment and to organisms that are present all around the world. This global warming leads to the extinction of these species so in order to protect them I choose this position.

6 0
3 years ago
What two conclusions makeup Mendel's law of segregation
sashaice [31]
1st conclusion: Organisms inherit two copies of each gene, one from each parent.

2nd conclusion: Organisms donate only one copy of each gene in their gametes.
Thus the two copies of each gene segregate or separate during gamete.

Hope this helpedXD
3 0
3 years ago
Other questions:
  • What is lithosphere​
    12·2 answers
  • Which statements describe advantages of models? Check all that apply.
    11·1 answer
  • Before mitosis begins, a cell makes a copy if all the DNA in each chromosome. What would go wrong if a cell did not make a secon
    15·1 answer
  • What type of protein regulates the turning on and off of genes?
    11·2 answers
  • Small aquatic organisms, such as coral, are the producers of the ocean.
    5·2 answers
  • You should wash the fruits and vegetables thoroughly before eating. Why?​
    14·2 answers
  • In which situation is the principle of cross-cutting relationships useful in determining relative age?
    13·2 answers
  • Which would best be described as abiotic?
    9·2 answers
  • Gas exchange between the air in the lungs and the blood takes place in the Select one: a. alveoli. b. primary bronchi. c. termin
    7·1 answer
  • Pls hurry! What is the function of a protein macromolecule?
    8·1 answer
Add answer
Login
Not registered? Fast signup
Signup
Login Signup
Ask question!