Biodiversity in the Age of Humans

Lecture 3 – Rescuing Species

by Elizabeth A. Hadly, PhD

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1. Start of Lecture Three
2. The Iberian lynx is the most endangered cat in the world
3. Genetic diversity is a toolkit for adaptation
4. North American pikas are running out of real estate
5. Himalayan pikas are also challenged by hypoxia at high elevations
6. Pikas are a keystone species in the Tibetan Plateau ecosystem
7. Tigers are so threatened that they no longer fulfill an ecological role
8. To save the tiger species we may have to mix the subspecies
9. Rescuing biodiversity offers challenges and solutions on many levels
10. Q: Should we try to preserve animal species that are extinct in nature?
11. Q: Could the human species go extinct?
12. Q: How difficult would it be to rescue the genetic diversity of tigers?

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