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Regardless of where we live, I imagine that all of us can remember a plot of land that is now a strip mall that used to be undeveloped, or some other area that has changed dramatically over time.
You attend a fund raiser to prevent the destruction of rain forests. The head organizer discovered you have a background in bioengineering and has requested that you speak at an afternoon breakout s
This job summarizes each organization's protective efforts against human destruction. It also identifies specific causes of destruction as recognized by these organizations.
What about when the habitat is not within U.S. borders? Many international conservation groups are working to say the rainforest--what rights do we have to interfere with how another sovereign nati
Coral reefs harbor a greater diversity of animals than any other environment in the sea.
Critically endangered animals, such as the Przewalskiâ??s horse, the vaquita, and the kakapo, have become extinct in the wild, or are soon to be doomed.
What additional measures are there to insure the preservation of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park What is lost if intrusion goes unchecked? Appeal to the biological diversity.
In the early years of the conservation movement (1970s), efforts were aimed mainly at the salvation of individual species - that is, saving them from extinction.
Check your state Natural Heritage Program (or that of a nearby state if your state doesn't have one) on the internet. Find one species that is threatened or endangered in your area.
What are REAL situations in which the application of remote technology can be especially useful in trying to better understand a species that requires conservation action? Please provide specific ex
Pick a plant and an animal and tell me how these how plants and animals arrive, find, migrate or develop their habitat, respond to the food chain, climate and other living and non living factors. Gi
In an ecological investigation of an area of European grassland, the energy values of organisms in the ecosystem were found.
Create a food web diagram in which you illustrate the energy flow among the organisms of a food chain within a particular ecosystem, the Everglades.
Create a food web diagram in which you illustrate the energy flow among the organisms of a food chain within the ocean. Then, determine the interdependency of life in your selected ecosystem by exam
Review the following statements and choose one that best describes your feelings towards wildlife. Defend the statement you choose by providing at least three reasons for your point of view.
What is an adaptive radiation? Whey did reptiles undergo an adaptive rediation about 250 million years ago? What anatomical and physiological characterics, which amphibians don't possess, enabled re
Explain how the animal is able to defend itself. (How does the animal use its habitat to defend and protect itself and its family?) What special features or behaviors does the animal have to escape
What is biodiversity and how are humans impacting it? Is maintaining biodiversity essential for human sustainability.
Every organism in an ecosystem is affected by the other organisms within the community it lives. Create a sample community and complete all of the following points about your community.
Describe the ecosystem in Pennsylvania in terms of plant life, animal life, and geology. What populations and communities are present? How dependent is Pennsylvania on this ecosystem? What are the l
What is the current estimate of the worldwide human population at this moment? Describe how this number is changing moment-to-moment, day-to-day, and from one year to the next.
Describe the main functions that you expect the organisms to perform. List the types of organisms you would select, and explain why you chose them.
Briefly describe the three levels of organization ecologists' use: population, community, and ecosystem. Give an example of each using a well-known city.
A fire destroys a large swath of Yellowstone National Park, but it turned out to be beneficial in the long run. Explain why. What type of succession has occurred there.
What are the characteristics that classify all the species you have selected in the Kingdom Animalia.