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Biodiversity Evil Quartet
Biodiversity Evil Quartet
Biodiversity Evil Quartet
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The evil quartet is the factor that causes the species losses and decline of biodiversity.
The term evil quartet was given by Jarod diamond. He gives four principles
of linked extinction.
Overhunting is define as the process of hunting some species within the allowed limit.
Species that was hunt usually live in wild areas such as the tropical rainforest which is
known for its biodiversity or in the jungle. Tropical rainforest consist of many layers
stack over the other which inside it live hundreds or thousands of species from among
the animal kingdom or plant kingdom and this cause it to be the most targeted area of
hunting. The problem with overhunting is the species that was hunt is not given
enough time to reproduce and balance the number of individual within the species.
Overhunt of some species which is sometimes endemic to a certain area can cause the
species to became less overtime and the worst scenario it may cause the extinction.
For reproduction to happen, the male and female must exchange genetic content
through the fertilisation of ovum from sperm. If one of the opposite sex is not
sufficient, competition could occur among the species. Hunting is done by human and
it left a great impact on the life cycle which includes the biotic and abiotic factors.
Human hunt usually for resources which either includes economical value, medicinal
value, or research value. The process of overhunting is widespread among country
especially the country where it is rich with biodiversity. Human started to be involved
offered by some vendors. It interrupts the habitat and resources of animal species due
to lacking of food or mate to continue their survival. Laws that was introduced in the
country related to hunting was abused by others and some go unknown due to lacking
of surveillance from authority. Due to different of views among human, some still
continue doing this forbidden act of overhunting because they don’t put any value in
it. Throughout history, the rate of overhunting increase and it is the major causes of
Next is the introduced species to certain areas. Introduced species cause disruption of
the life cycle where the species that was thought to bring benefit to some areas usually
can cause the problem to species originally from within that area. When any new
species was introduced to a new area, it may not be suitable because some of the
factors were ignored or taken for granted. This cause the competition to increase
especially for habitat and resources such as food and drink. The interaction among the
differences between genetic or morphology. The harm that was caused by the
introduced species is greater because it may kill the local species for the habitat. Apart
from that, the specific role of some species in that population or rather known as niche
will face some problem because of the lacking of support from other species. Support
from other species within a life cycle is crucial to continue to survive. If some of the
species abandon their part, the other species will be affected by it. Introduced species
could not replace the role play by certain species due to different of genetic material.
New species are being introduced every day by the human because they want to breed
a new species even though most of it failed such as the case of Dolly the Sheep. The
higher demand of market from species drive illegal business to import variety of
species from neighbouring countries to be breed in the local for easy gain. This
problem causes the decline of biodiversity because of the incompatible type of species
Habitat destruction is ranked as second as the cause of species loss and decline of
biodiversity. It is defined as the loss of places of living for a particular species within
Within a habitat, it is where most of living things spend their time whether it be
growing, reproducing, or taking a rest. All kingdom is included and has their specific
habitat. Human is the main cause of habitat destruction. They continue to destroy
habitat either for economic value or resources. Such other factors such as agricultural
modern time, as time move forward and development is widespread, the need for
agricultural land is because the increase of population of human being that needs
more supply for growing. This causes a lot of habitat loss because within an area the
animal or plant depends on the surrounding to continue living. One of the factors that
are most common is logging. Apart from causing other consequences such as flash
flood and soil erosion, it also destroys the habitat for a variety of species. Sometimes
there are animal or plant that Is endemic to the area of logging and this could speed up
Chains of linked extinction are related to how certain events is linked or related to
the extinction of some species. It may either be caused by human or disaster that
happen unexpectedly causing a loss in the population. In modern time, this rate of
known as genetic modification. Genetic modification has benefits but the problem it
brings overcome the benefit. A clear picture about this is a plant species. Even though
the plant species varies in the aspect of the level of defence does not change and it
may lead to the mass death of extinction. Certain cases show that plant that has been
genetically modified is not resistant to any new disease and it may lead to poisoning.
Poisoning will occur to some animal if it consumes the genetically modified plant.
Plant was known to be the primary producer in every food chain cycle. The important
roles played by plants give the idea that the increase and decrease in the other
populations depend on it. Without genetically original plant, some of the animals may
have a mutation in their DNA and it could be inherited to the next generation thus
causing infertility. Other chained linked that may lead to extinction is the toxic waste
from the industrial company. Most industries remove their waste in the sea which is
known to contain a lot of biodiversities. For example, the coral reef habitat alone
any of the fish is mutated due to the toxic waste, the other tropic level will also get
affected which is the bird. After every trophic level, the toxic content increase until at
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