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• How can we improve the way we handle food resources for human consumption?

  -close the yield gap
  -increase production limits
  -change diets
  -reduce waste

• What is the difficulty in managing biodiversity?

  Because the diversity comes with a lot of things unknown. The more species there are, the more complicated the system.

• What is an aspect of a forest area that makes it a higher quality forest?

  Biodiversity
  High disturbance regime (if an ecosystem is disturbance dependent)
  Composition (types of species, eg pristine?)

• What is ment with the terms, transition minimum and transition maximum?

  The transition minimum, regarding forest transitions, is a point in time in which an area has it's lowest amount of forest cover, transition maximum is a point in time in which the forest cover is on it's highest point before turning and decreasing again.

• What are transitions dependent on?

  Time and scale

• Is protection of a forest enough to trigger a turning point to gain forest cover again?

  No, active restoration management is also important, for example by planting new trees

• How much of the worldwide forest is primary forest?

  36%

• What are events that causes a primary forest to degenerate after which forest sometimes regenerates into secondary forest?

  -abandoned agricultural land
  -fire
  -landslide or hurricane
  -clearcut

• What are reasons to still put effort into the protection and regeneration of younger forests?

  In time younger forest will develop into "better" more balanced and biodiverse older forests. Also they can provide ( still unknown) values like:
  medicine, erosion control, stepping stones/corridors (bats, birds, bees), wood, food, 

• What is the mayority of wood used for?

  For fuel (cooking and warmth)