The Ecology Book

319 fossil fuels were adding to global warming. It was not until the 1970s, however, that governments began to act upon this kno ...

320 change research to governments around the world to help them understand the threats to humans and the environment as a resul ...

321 that he believes climate change to be a natural phenomenon from which the world can “come back” without significant changes ...

322 T he Sustainable Biosphere Initiative (SBI) emerged in 1988 due to the efforts of the Ecological Society of America (ESA) to ...

323 Wind turbines are explained to young students. The SBI advocates ecological education in schools and universities so that pe ...

324 C limatology is an uncertain science. Future projections will change, based on human actions and new technology, as well as ...

325 See also: Renewable energy 300–305 ■ Man and the Biosphere Programme 310–311 ■ Halting climate change 316–321 ENVIRONMENTALI ...

326 I n 1987, Indian environmental campaigner Vandana Shiva launched a movement to protect native seed diversity in response to ...

327 Fertilizers have hugely increased food grain production in India—whose population of 1.3 billion people makes food security ...

328 T he benefits that humans derive from ecosystems are referred to by ecologists as ecosystem services. Some of the natural pr ...

329 See also: Human activity and biodiversity 92–95 ■ Ecological resilience 150–151 ■ The Gaia hypothesis 214–217 ■ Human devast ...

330 IN CONTEXT KEY FIGURE Paul Connett (1940 –) BEFORE 1970 The first Earth Day takes place in the US to raise awareness of clea ...

331 See also: Global warming 202–203 ■ Pollution 230–235 ■ Urban sprawl 282–283 ■ A plastic wasteland 284–285 ■ Renewable energy ...

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334 SAMUEL DE CHAMPLAIN 1574–1635 A French explorer, cartographer, soldier, and naturalist, Champlain explored and mapped much o ...

DIRECTORY 335 Potsdam, he studied at several universities before becoming a zoology professor at the University of Jena in Haec ...

336 making hours of television. The Calypso was badly damaged in 1996, but Cousteau died suddenly in 1997 before he could afford ...

DIRECTORY 337 determines where animals choose to live. His 1963 paper on habitat selection by prairie deer mice demonstrated tha ...

338 of California, Berkeley, in 1965. The next year, at Boston University, she proposed that cells within nuclei had evolved as ...