grand canyon bio220 week 1 and week 2 discussions
Choose an environmental issue from your textbook, or from your own personal experience and explain how this environmental issue directly affects you. What is the role of environmental science in addressing this issue? What challenges do you believe are the obstacles that would hinder the recommendations of environmental scientists to address this environmental issue from being successfully implemented?
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Go to the following website to determine your personal footprint:http://www.nature.org/greenliving/carboncalculator/index.htm
Report the result of your personal footprint assessment. What factors do you think had the most effect on your footprint? What can you do to change your footprint?
(Note: For those students using a Screen Reader refer to the Directions for Screen Reader Users.)
Select an example of a global biome and an example of an ecosystem found in that global biome (grassland, forest, desert). What kind of animals and plants would you expect to make up that ecosystem? Provide one symbiotic relationship example within your selected ecosystem (such as mutualism, commensalism, and predator prey).
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View Biome Explorer located in the Topic 2 materials. Choose a biome and a scenario and explain how conservation genetics (refer to the lecture notes and textbook for examples) could affect the survival of any of the species in the scenario. Other than the factors identified in the media piece, what other factors can you identify that contribute to the growth, stability, and decline of a species' population?
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