The Ecology Book

THE HUMAN FACTOR 259 5000 Reforesting the Amazon About 17 percent of rain forest in the Amazon Basin has been lost since the mid ...

260 I n 1982, a team of scientists working for the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) discovered that ozone levels above the Antarct ...

261 See also: Global warming 202–203 ■ Environmental feedback loops 224–225 ■ Pollution 230–235 ■ The Keeling Curve 240–241 ■ En ...

262 WE NEEDED A MANDATE FOR CHANGE DEPLETION OF NATURAL RESOURCES I n This Changes Everything (2014), Naomi Klein railed against ...

263 See also: Deforestation 254–259 ■ Overfishing 266–269 ■ The water crisis 288–291 ■ Humankind’s dominance over nature 296 ■ H ...

264 industrialized nations were on an economically viable supply. With this came, too, the realization that oil is a finite reso ...

265 composed of animals, microbes, plant roots, and minerals, is a complex and delicate structure that is slow to form and easil ...

266 NOW YOU’VE GOT BIGGER AND BIGGER BOATS CHASING SMALLER AND FEWER FISH OVERFISHING I n 1992, one piece of legislation changed ...

267 See also: A holistic view of Earth 210–211 ■ Pollution 230–235 ■ Human devastation of Earth 299 ■ Sustainable Biosphere Init ...

268 equal to the volume replenished through reproduction. This is usually achieved through quotas, which limit the number of fis ...

269 global warming continues, it will cause higher ocean temperatures, sea ice will melt further, and wind and ocean current pat ...

270 THE INTRODUCTION OF A FEW RABBITS COULD DO LITTLE HARM INVASIVE SPECIES S ome of the greatest damage to ecosystems is caused ...

271 See also: Predator–prey equations 44–49 ■ Non-consumptive effects of predators on their prey 76–77 ■ Human activity and biod ...

272 by the ecologists Phyllis Coley, John Bryant, and F. Stuart Chapin, argues that an invasive species thrives because it is al ...

273 Since their introduction to Australia in 1935, cane toads have out-competed native frogs because they reproduce far more qui ...

AS TEMPERATURES INCREASE, THE DELICATELY BALANCED SYSTEM FALLS INTO DISARRAY SPRING CREEP US_274-279_Spring_creep.indd 274 12/11 ...

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276 M ost scientists now agree that climate change, driven by an increase in greenhouse gases, is raising the global mean temper ...

277 When Camille Parmesan and Gary Yohe published evidence in 2003— based on an analysis of more than 1,700 species—they demonst ...

278 evidence was even more dramatic: across 53 plant species, leaves, flowers, and fruits appeared almost six days earlier in 20 ...