UCSD ESYS 10 Introduction to Environmental Systems
Winter 2006
February 16
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Reading: Chapter 13, 18 Biodiversity
Problems due Tuesday
Feb. 28 (2 weeks from now): Ch. 13
review questions 1 and 4, Critical thinking 2. Ch. 18 rev. questions 2, 10, Critical thinking 3a,b (not c).
Lecture: Biodiversity.
Case
Study 3 (part 1): Biodiversity (fisheries)
Recent species extinctions The dodo bird, the moa, and other island losses
Navigating
away from extinction (South Pacific Regional Environment Programme)
Dodoisland
Moa (New Zealand)
Hawaii bird species
changes
Impact
hypothesis
Dinosaurs (education page University of California Berkeley Museum of Paleontology)
Permian-Triassic meteor crash? NY Times Dec 16, 2003
Permian-Triassic meteor crash - U. Rochester press release (Basu) - Nov. 20 2003
But can it be volcanic eruptions? See new article in LA Times Jan. 21, 2005.
Rainforest biodiversity
Forest Conservation Portal
Rainforests.net
Klamath River
Washington Post: Klamath River
Defining biodiversity
Defining the `B' Word (Defenders
Magazine)
California
Bioregions
Biodiversity research
(Dewdney, U. W. Ontario)
Feedback approach to biodiversity
BOREAS
field program (Oak Ridge National Lab)
Forest capital of Canada
(borealforest.org)
Boreal Forest Network
Marine biodiversity
Center for Marine Biodiversity (Scripps Institution of Oceanography)
Coastal ecosystems at the brink
Why does biodiversity matter?
The Final Countdown
(Audobon Magazine)
The Threatened Biosphere by E.
O. Wilson (Defenders)
E. O.
Wilson, slide show on National Parks
Other
interesting links:
United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
International
Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP)
American Museum of Natural
History: Center for Biodiversity and Conservation
Last
modification Feb.16 2006
email: Lynne Talley