Teaching Tropical Rainforest Biology

A Tropical Rainforest Teaching Unit Outline - continued

3. Causes of Tropical Rainforest Deforestation
   
   
   1. Population pressure and land distribution problems
   2. Logging
   3. Agriculture: crops and ranching
   4. Drug production
      
      
4. Effects of Tropical Rainforest Deforestation
   
   
   1. Loss of biodiversity
      
      
      0. ethical implications
      1. practical implications (e.g. medicinal plants)
         
         
   2. Soil erosion, sedimentation, and flooding.
   3. Weather pattern changes.
      
      
      0. rainfall
      1. global warming
         
         
   4. Loss of cultural diversity.
      
      
      0. Loss of indigenous plant knowledge.
      1. Ethical implications of indigenous cultural destruction.
         
         

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