Problem:
Describe answer of all the questions:
Question 1: In the context of ecological stability, define in your own words what the concepts of resistance and resilience mean.
Question 2: Give a brief description of a field study that showed that less diverse communities tended to be less resilient.
Question 3: Explain why the historical rate of species extinction over the last 500 years (approx. 1.6 species per year) cannot be meaningfully/directly compared with the average rate of extinction inferred from the fossil record (approx. 1 species per year).
Question 4: Provide the name of one continental country and one island region that feature on the list of top regions for the number of extinctions. Please justify your answer.