FORESTRY
ECOLOGY AND ENVIRONMENT
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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Short term impact
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Long term impact
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Either A or B
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -Changes in environmental conditions can affect the survival of individual organisms or an entire species. Short-term environmental changes, like droughts, floods, and fires do not give populations time to adapt to the change and force them to move or become extinct. (Extinct species no longer exist.)
Detailed explanation-2: -We can distinguish between short term impact (e.g., the development of a temporary medication for an illness for which it can be hoped that soon a more definitive remedy will appear), and the long term impact (e.g., the discovery of the photovoltaic effect which led to the development of solar voltaic energy).
Detailed explanation-3: -Animals can respond to environmental change in 3 key ways: disperse, adjust through phenotypic plasticity, or adapt through genetic changes ( Williams et al.
Detailed explanation-4: -Short-Term Environmental Change. Environmental change that occurs quickly and affects organism immediately. Extinct.