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Human Dependence and Impact on Ecosystems
Quick questions on Ecosystem Services and Resource Use - TCE Environmental Science (Tasmania)
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What is forestry in Tasmania?Show answer
Tasmania's forests provide timber, jobs and regional income, and they also deliver major regulating and supporting services by storing carbon, protecting catchments and sheltering biodiversity. Native-forest logging, especially clear-felling, can reduce habitat for species such as the swift parrot and the masked owl, increase erosion and change water flows. Plantations and regrowth can restore some services, but a young plantation does not match the structural complexity or carbon store of an old-growth forest. Sustainable forestry tries to balance timber yield against the long-term services the forest provides.
What are fisheries?Show answer
Tasmanian fisheries, including rock lobster, abalone and aquaculture such as Atlantic salmon, are economically important. Wild fisheries can be overharvested if catch exceeds the rate at which stocks reproduce, reducing the resource and harming the wider food web. Salmon aquaculture provides food and jobs but can affect water quality, the seabed and surrounding marine life if nutrient waste is not managed, showing how a provisioning service can erode regulating and supporting services.
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