TLS Online TPP Program

#Question id: 9198


Tropical forests are being converted to farm or pasture land at an alarming rate, and one major focus is on the biodiversity and the impact to these ecosystems. What is a direct benefit to humans that helps explain why these forests need to be preserved?

#Section 5: Applied Ecology & Evolution
  1.  This diversity provides areas for coffee growing.
  2. Natural and undisturbed areas are important wildlife habitats.
  3. The diversity could contain novel drugs for consumers.
  4. The plant diversity provides shade, which lowers global warming.