Assignment 2 THE HUMAN IMPACT ON VEGETATION
Assignment 2 THE HUMAN IMPACT ON VEGETATION
Assignment 2 THE HUMAN IMPACT ON VEGETATION
5. What role have humans played in the development of savannas and mid-latitude grasslands?
- Savannas cover more than 50% of the African continent, home to diverse endemic floras
and faunas. It is the central to wildlife tourism and hunting. people across the continent
depend on a multitude of savanna ecosystem goods and services, including the provision of
water and food, medicines, grazing for livestock, timber and grass for construction, fuel
wood and charcoal. Over population of humans has affected the Savannas and mid-latitude
grasslands. People consume most of the natural resources and parts of these lands where
industrialized and occupied by the people causing the degradation of the natural habitat
and endangers the wildlife.
6. What are ecological explosions?
- increase in numbers of some kind of living organism—it may be an infectious virus like
influenza, or a bacterium like bubonic plague, or a fungus like that of the potato disease, a
green plant like the prickly pear, or an animal like the grey squirrel
7. How does pollution affect plants?
- Plants usually show damage in a variety of ways, including visible signs of damage like
necrotic lesions, stunted plant growth, or changing in color including chlorosis (aka
yellowing leaves), reddening, bronzing, mottling