Biology Now, 2e

326 ■ CHAPTER 18 General Principles of Ecology ECOLOGY 30,000 square miles of rainforest. In 2005 alone, fires increased 20-fold ...

Amazon on Fire ■ 327 while the Southern Hemisphere simultaneously experiences winter because it is tilted away. Global warming, ...

328 ■ CHAPTER 18 General Principles of Ecology ECOLOGY distant past, up to hundreds of thousands of years ago, by measuring CO 2 ...

Amazon on Fire ■ 329 Absorbed energy is reemitted to the atmosphere as infrared radiation. (^1) About a third of the incoming so ...

330 ■ CHAPTER 18 General Principles of Ecology ECOLOGY Fire and Water During her first burn in 2004, Balch was surprised to see ...

Agriculture is the main driver of tropical deforestation, and Brazil clears more land, by far, than any other country in the wor ...

332 ■ CHAPTER 18 General Principles of Ecology ECOLOGY A n action or process is sustainable if it can be continued indefinitely ...

Amazon on Fire ■ 333 U.S.A. Russia 4.8 3.3 U.K. Brazil China India World 2.9 1.8 2.0 0.7 1.6 If everyone in the world lived like ...

334 ■ CHAPTER 18 General Principles of Ecology ECOLOGY Figure 18.11 A projection of the Amazon rainforest in 2030 This map of fu ...

Amazon on Fire ■ 335 moist air rises and cools, releasing moisture as rain or snow depending on temperature, and then sinks back ...

336 ■ CHAPTER 18 General Principles of Ecology ECOLOGY Decomposers Pathways resulting from human activity Natural pathways Drill ...

Amazon on Fire ■ 337 cycling, see Chapter 21.) One way that carbon is transferred between the biotic and abiotic worlds is throu ...

338 ■ CHAPTER 18 General Principles of Ecology ECOLOGY is preventing the growth of new trees. If any strategies work well on the ...

Amazon on Fire ■ 339 Tr y Something New (^9) Which of the following behaviors could decrease the production of greenhouse gases, ...

Zika-Busting Mosquitoes Genetically engineered insects help stop the spread of dengue, malaria, and Zika. ◆ (^) Articulate the d ...

341 ECOLOGY 19 CHAPTER GROWTH OF POPULATIONS ...

342 ■ CHAPTER 19 Growth of Populations ECOLOGY I t is impossible to know when an infected mosquito bit the first person in Miami ...

Zika-Busting Mosquitoes ■ 343 In February 2016, the World Health Organization declared the spread of Zika virus to be a “public ...

344 ■ CHAPTER 19 Growth of Populations ECOLOGY the total number of individuals in the population. A population is a group of org ...

Zika-Busting Mosquitoes ■ 345 engineering, or GE. In contrast to insecticides, GM mosquitoes can directly target just one insect ...