2016.17 Ecology, Ongoing Expectations
... CLE 3255.Inq.2 Design and conduct scientific investigations to explore new phenomena, verify previous results, test how well a theory predicts, and compare opposing theories. CLE 3255.Inq.3 Use appropriate tools and technology to collect precise and accurate data. CLE 3255.Inq.4 Apply qualitative an ...
... CLE 3255.Inq.2 Design and conduct scientific investigations to explore new phenomena, verify previous results, test how well a theory predicts, and compare opposing theories. CLE 3255.Inq.3 Use appropriate tools and technology to collect precise and accurate data. CLE 3255.Inq.4 Apply qualitative an ...
Working with nature, for people - European Commission
... weekly News Alert which is delivered by email to subscribers and provides accessible summaries of key scientific studies. Thematic Issues are special editions of the News Alert which focus on a key policy area. http://ec.europa.eu/science-environment-policy ...
... weekly News Alert which is delivered by email to subscribers and provides accessible summaries of key scientific studies. Thematic Issues are special editions of the News Alert which focus on a key policy area. http://ec.europa.eu/science-environment-policy ...
JLW_LondonGroup_2007_Joburg_Measurement
... Which accounting units for ecosystem services? “Because most ecosystem services are public goods, markets are not available to provide clear units of account. This point can be made most forcibly if we consider the challenge of creating markets for ecosystem services. In practice, such markets tend ...
... Which accounting units for ecosystem services? “Because most ecosystem services are public goods, markets are not available to provide clear units of account. This point can be made most forcibly if we consider the challenge of creating markets for ecosystem services. In practice, such markets tend ...
Problem-Based Learning in Ecological Economics
... Today’s problems come from yesterday’s “solutions”. The harder you push, the harder a system pushes back. Behavior grows better before it grows worse. The easy way out usually leads back in. The cure can be worse than the disease. Faster is slower. Cause and effect are not closely related in time an ...
... Today’s problems come from yesterday’s “solutions”. The harder you push, the harder a system pushes back. Behavior grows better before it grows worse. The easy way out usually leads back in. The cure can be worse than the disease. Faster is slower. Cause and effect are not closely related in time an ...
Using Small Populations of Wolves for Ecosystem Restoration and
... other parts of the world (Hayward and Kerley 2009). For example, the “dingo fence” (Canis lupus dingo) is famously used to keep dingoes separated from livestock in Australia; in South Africa, lions and African wild dogs would likely be extirpated from most of the country if not for fenced nature pre ...
... other parts of the world (Hayward and Kerley 2009). For example, the “dingo fence” (Canis lupus dingo) is famously used to keep dingoes separated from livestock in Australia; in South Africa, lions and African wild dogs would likely be extirpated from most of the country if not for fenced nature pre ...
Freese Scale for Grassland Biodiversity
... transition lands from a primary focus on livestock and grain production to a focus on biodiversity. We want to emphasize that not all commodity producers operate at the far end of the continuum away from conservation. In fact, most in the APR region are well aware of many biodiversity values of thei ...
... transition lands from a primary focus on livestock and grain production to a focus on biodiversity. We want to emphasize that not all commodity producers operate at the far end of the continuum away from conservation. In fact, most in the APR region are well aware of many biodiversity values of thei ...
Tundra Vegetation Change near Barrow, Alaska
... functional responses to arctic change. Different plant communities have different ecosystem functional properties (e.g. carbon balance and surface energy budget, Shaver and Chapin 1991, Chapin et al 2005, Oberbauer et al 2007), and a change in the spatial extent of different plant communities or cha ...
... functional responses to arctic change. Different plant communities have different ecosystem functional properties (e.g. carbon balance and surface energy budget, Shaver and Chapin 1991, Chapin et al 2005, Oberbauer et al 2007), and a change in the spatial extent of different plant communities or cha ...
geog_466_final_paper - Protected Areas Law Capacity
... years, this could switch to seawater due to sea-level rise. With more than 1,200 miles of coastline, 4,500 square miles of estuaries and bays (including the well-known Florida Bay), and 6,700 square miles of additional coastal waters, South Florida is highly susceptible to the negative consequences ...
... years, this could switch to seawater due to sea-level rise. With more than 1,200 miles of coastline, 4,500 square miles of estuaries and bays (including the well-known Florida Bay), and 6,700 square miles of additional coastal waters, South Florida is highly susceptible to the negative consequences ...
Study Guide for Final
... guide for the final exam. It is not a contract and it is possible I missed a few terms. Questions may be worded differently than the quizzes. Recognize means just that, you would have to find that concept in a multiple‐choice question. Describe, explain and bold topics may involve more, and could ...
... guide for the final exam. It is not a contract and it is possible I missed a few terms. Questions may be worded differently than the quizzes. Recognize means just that, you would have to find that concept in a multiple‐choice question. Describe, explain and bold topics may involve more, and could ...
Developing an `integrated` approach to
... has decreased by 14% since the 1970s. These increases represent larger changes than any century-long trend in the last ten thousand years (Weaver & Green 1998). By the year 2100, winter temperatures in many parts of the arctic are predicted to rise by 40% more than the global average change. Arctic ...
... has decreased by 14% since the 1970s. These increases represent larger changes than any century-long trend in the last ten thousand years (Weaver & Green 1998). By the year 2100, winter temperatures in many parts of the arctic are predicted to rise by 40% more than the global average change. Arctic ...
Unit 7: Ecology
... size of two species of paramecia, Paramecium aurelia and Paramecium caudatum. When either species was cultured alone — with fresh food added regularly — the population grew exponentially at first and then leveled off. However, when the two species were cultured together, P. caudatum proved to be the ...
... size of two species of paramecia, Paramecium aurelia and Paramecium caudatum. When either species was cultured alone — with fresh food added regularly — the population grew exponentially at first and then leveled off. However, when the two species were cultured together, P. caudatum proved to be the ...
2.2. Integrating climate change into forestry: Mitigation
... Many forest activities contribute to climate change mitigation. 1. Carbon stocks can be increased through plantations or agroforestry. The benefit of these activities is the difference between the growing stock and the baseline, as show on the graph. 2. Existing stocks can be conserved through reduc ...
... Many forest activities contribute to climate change mitigation. 1. Carbon stocks can be increased through plantations or agroforestry. The benefit of these activities is the difference between the growing stock and the baseline, as show on the graph. 2. Existing stocks can be conserved through reduc ...
Work package No 2F: Ecosystems and Forests
... Biodiversity is defined as the diversity among living organisms in terrestrial, marine, and other aquatic ecosystems and the ecological complexes of which they are part (MA 2005b). It includes diversity at different levels, ranging from genes and populations over species to communities and ecosystem ...
... Biodiversity is defined as the diversity among living organisms in terrestrial, marine, and other aquatic ecosystems and the ecological complexes of which they are part (MA 2005b). It includes diversity at different levels, ranging from genes and populations over species to communities and ecosystem ...
Ecosystem Evolution and Conservation
... between the indirect effect of predator removal and exotic predator introductions. If a predator has had a strong impact on herbivore abundance over evolutionary time scales, plants in these systems should have a low investment in defense against herbivory. This makes them vulnerable to increased he ...
... between the indirect effect of predator removal and exotic predator introductions. If a predator has had a strong impact on herbivore abundance over evolutionary time scales, plants in these systems should have a low investment in defense against herbivory. This makes them vulnerable to increased he ...
Preface 1 PDF
... in a given set of sites, but instead aims at allowing large scale processes involved in population and community dynamics to reestablish themselves. These processes have particularly been hampered for the European megafauna in the last few centuries and therefore rewilding also promotes wildlife com ...
... in a given set of sites, but instead aims at allowing large scale processes involved in population and community dynamics to reestablish themselves. These processes have particularly been hampered for the European megafauna in the last few centuries and therefore rewilding also promotes wildlife com ...
The Ecological Basis of Conservation Heterogeneity, Ecosystems
... assemblage of grazers before acidification, but were a dominant member of the assemblage when environmental conditions changed. The conservation message is clear: one goal for conservation is maximization of functional redundancy because that offers the best insurance for maintenance of ecosystem fu ...
... assemblage of grazers before acidification, but were a dominant member of the assemblage when environmental conditions changed. The conservation message is clear: one goal for conservation is maximization of functional redundancy because that offers the best insurance for maintenance of ecosystem fu ...
A Preliminary Assessment of Ecosystem Vulnerability to Climate
... Ecosystems have evolved to fit specific temperatures and precipitation regimes over millennia. Some ecosystems exist in regions where there are naturally large variations in climate within and between years. Each ecosystem can thus be said to be adapted to fit a climatic “space” that accounts both f ...
... Ecosystems have evolved to fit specific temperatures and precipitation regimes over millennia. Some ecosystems exist in regions where there are naturally large variations in climate within and between years. Each ecosystem can thus be said to be adapted to fit a climatic “space” that accounts both f ...
What good are wolves?
... USGPO). His brother, Olaus J.Murie, thought predators may have an important influence during severe winters in reducing elk herds too large for their winter range. (The Elk of North America. 1951. Stackpole Co., Harrisburg, Pa., and Wildl. Mgmt. Inst., Wash., D.C. 376 pp.) Douglas H. Pimlott pointed ...
... USGPO). His brother, Olaus J.Murie, thought predators may have an important influence during severe winters in reducing elk herds too large for their winter range. (The Elk of North America. 1951. Stackpole Co., Harrisburg, Pa., and Wildl. Mgmt. Inst., Wash., D.C. 376 pp.) Douglas H. Pimlott pointed ...
Effects of permafrost degradation on ecosystems
... is estimated at about 1.5×106 km2 and account for 69.77% the total permafrost area in china[11]. Permafrost controlled by air temperature in the thickness, presence and geographic extent reacts sensitively to changes in atmospheric temperature and permafrost is identified as one of the key cryospher ...
... is estimated at about 1.5×106 km2 and account for 69.77% the total permafrost area in china[11]. Permafrost controlled by air temperature in the thickness, presence and geographic extent reacts sensitively to changes in atmospheric temperature and permafrost is identified as one of the key cryospher ...
Effects of permafrost degradation on ecosystems
... degradation of permafrost, increase of thaw depths and disappearance of permafrost in local area, especially in the discontinuous and sporadic permafrost zones [17,18]. Widespread increases in active layer thickness can cause great changes in hydrological processes, distribution of vegetation, soil ...
... degradation of permafrost, increase of thaw depths and disappearance of permafrost in local area, especially in the discontinuous and sporadic permafrost zones [17,18]. Widespread increases in active layer thickness can cause great changes in hydrological processes, distribution of vegetation, soil ...
Critical Review - University of South Florida
... knowledge of direct toxicity, species richness, speciesinteraction strengths and trophic links and their distributions would then facilitate identifying key species whose loss (or, possibly, decline) could trigger secondary extinctions as well as fragile communities where the loss of a species, on a ...
... knowledge of direct toxicity, species richness, speciesinteraction strengths and trophic links and their distributions would then facilitate identifying key species whose loss (or, possibly, decline) could trigger secondary extinctions as well as fragile communities where the loss of a species, on a ...
DEBUNKING THE IDYLLIC VIEW OF NATURAL PROCESSES
... few opportunities for positive experiences, if any. But that is not all. Since in most cases they either starve or are killed by other animals, their deaths are likely to be rather painful. This means that their lives contain proportionally far more suffering than positive wellbeing. Hence, we have ...
... few opportunities for positive experiences, if any. But that is not all. Since in most cases they either starve or are killed by other animals, their deaths are likely to be rather painful. This means that their lives contain proportionally far more suffering than positive wellbeing. Hence, we have ...
UNIT: 3 - ECOSYSTEMS OBJECTIVE:
... rainfall is usually less than 25 cm per year and not uniform. The temperature in the days is very high and the nights are cold. Only 10% of the land area is occupied by trees, plants, shrubs and herbs. Just like the other ecosystems, the desert ecosystem also has three components: Producers, Consume ...
... rainfall is usually less than 25 cm per year and not uniform. The temperature in the days is very high and the nights are cold. Only 10% of the land area is occupied by trees, plants, shrubs and herbs. Just like the other ecosystems, the desert ecosystem also has three components: Producers, Consume ...
current projects - South African National Parks
... Gibbon RJ Current age (ESA) of the northern Kruger their relationship with the landscape, past and National Park present. The aim of this study would therefore be to Feeding status and habitat selection reveal baseline quantitative nutrient values for roan antelope populations in South Africa with C ...
... Gibbon RJ Current age (ESA) of the northern Kruger their relationship with the landscape, past and National Park present. The aim of this study would therefore be to Feeding status and habitat selection reveal baseline quantitative nutrient values for roan antelope populations in South Africa with C ...
Namadgi National Park, ACT Kosciuszko National Park, NSW
... The park protects the Cotter River Catchment, which is a major source of water for Canberra. Kosciuszko National Park covers a variety of climatic regions. In turn, these support several distinct ecosystems including alpine woodlands, montane forests and wet and dry sclerophyll forests. The alpine a ...
... The park protects the Cotter River Catchment, which is a major source of water for Canberra. Kosciuszko National Park covers a variety of climatic regions. In turn, these support several distinct ecosystems including alpine woodlands, montane forests and wet and dry sclerophyll forests. The alpine a ...
Pleistocene Park
Pleistocene Park (Russian: Плейстоценовый парк) is a nature reserve on the Kolyma River south of Chersky in the Sakha Republic, Russia, in northeastern Siberia, where an attempt is being made to recreate the northern subarctic steppe grassland ecosystem that flourished in the area during the last glacial period.The project is being led by Russian researcher Sergey Zimov, with hopes to back the hypothesis that overhunting, and not climate change, was primarily responsible for the extinction of wildlife and the disappearance of the grasslands at the end of the Pleistocene epoch.A further aim is to research the climatic effects of the expected changes in the ecosystem. Here the hypothesis is that the change from tundra to grassland will result in a raised ratio of energy emission to energy absorption of the area, leading to less thawing of permafrost and thereby less emission of greenhouse gases.To study this, large herbivores have been released, and their effect on the local fauna is being monitored. Preliminary results point at the ecologically low-grade tundra biome being converted into a productive grassland biome, and at the energy emission of the area being raised.A documentary is being produced about the park by an American journalist and filmmaker.