What human actions have positive or negative effects on wetland habitats?

Targets

At the end of this Unit you should be able to answer the following questions 

1. What is a wetland ecosystem?

1.1 What are various types of wetlands, and why do they matter?

1.2 What plants and animals may live in a wetland site?

1.3 What adaptations improve plant and animal suitability for life in a wetland?

2. What are the roles of various organisms in a food web?

2.1 Who are the producers, consumers, and decomposers in a wetlands habitat?

2.2 What are food chains and food webs?

What human actions affect wetland ecosystems?

3.1 How do changes in one environment affect other environments?

3.2 What human actions have positive effects or negative effects on wetland habitats?

targets
This lesson is about how people can both cause problems and create solutions in our wetlands.  You will learn how the actions of people, both deliberate and non-deliberate, have caused great change and sometimes endangered and sometimes benefited our wetlands, including plant and animal life.








As you work with the following resources, focus on these questions:

  • What human changes in land use in the past caused problems for wetlands?
  • Why did people do things that caused so much damage?
  • Does this continue today?
  • How do human actions benefit wetlands?
  • What are other issues that involve wetlands?