Human influences on ecosystems mind map

Human influences on ecosystems

• Food supply
  • Increasing production
    • Machinery
    • Fertilisers
    • Insecticides
    • Herbicides
  • Selective breeding
    • Crops
    • Livestock
  • Monocultures
    • Efficient
    • Pests spread
    • Low biodiversity
  • Intensive livestock
    • High output
    • Welfare
    • Disease
    • Waste
• Habitat destruction
  • Biodiversity
    • Number of species in area
  • Causes
    • Housing and farming
    • Resource extraction
    • Pollution
  • Altered food webs
  • Deforestation
    • Extinction
    • Soil loss
    • Flooding
    • More CO₂
• Pollution
  • Sewage and fertiliser
    • Nitrates
    • Disease microbes
  • Eutrophication Supplement
    • Algal growth
    • Decomposers
    • Oxygen falls
    • Fish die
  • Plastics
    • Non-biodegradable
    • Blockage
    • Entanglement
  • Greenhouse gases
    • CO₂
    • Methane
    • Climate change
• Conservation
  • Sustainable resources
    • Forests
    • Fish stocks
  • Endangered species
    • Habitat loss
    • Hunting
    • Introduced species
  • Conservation methods
    • Monitoring
    • Education
    • Captive breeding
    • Seed banks
  • Fish and forest methods Supplement
    • Quotas
    • Closed seasons
    • Replanting
  • AI and IVF Supplement
  • Why conserve Supplement
    • Biodiversity
    • Nutrient cycling
    • Genes
  • Low genetic variation Supplement