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Ecological Core Concepts -- Human impacts

Discipline Specific Core Concepts Classifications
Agriculture and resource harvesting (19)
Alteration of biogeochemical cycles (13)
Biodiversity loss (52)
Climate change (53)
Habitat destruction (28)
Human population growth and consumption (12)
Species introductions (8)
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View Resource Investigating human impact on stream ecology: locally and nationally

This activity is intended for students to lead investigations on stream ecology. Students will exercise critical thinking skills to interpret data sets and maps regarding water quality and usage. They will also learn how to manipulate the data and create presentations of the figures. This activity is included in Volume 8 of Teaching Issues and Experiments in Ecology (TIEE).

 

Publisher: EcoEd Digital Library

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View Resource Urban to Rural Gradients – Exploring Trends in Organismal, Community and Ecosystem Ecology

Urban ecology is quickly becoming a major subdiscipline in ecology and being included in the syllabi of most college-level ecology courses. This field and laboratory exercise is designed to be easily modified for use in any area that has a gradient of human density, from urban to rural. In addition, the exercise is designed to 1) cover major organizational levels in ecology, from organisms to...

 

Publisher: EcoEd Digital Library
View Resource Sustainable Biofuels from Forests: Meeting the Challenge

This report examines how forest products could be used as biofuel and the availability of these products. To study the sustainability of this bioenergy source, this report reviews some of the forest practices and certification programs which have proven successful in other regions of the world. This report is one of a four-part series based upon scientific manuscripts initially presented at a...

 

Publisher: EcoEd Digital Library
View Resource A Bird’s Eye View of Changing Landscapes: Using Google Earth to Explore Changing Landscapes

Students use Google Earth and satellite imagery from the United Nations Environmental Programme’s Atlas of our Changing Environment to discover ways in which landscapes change over time due to human actions and natural forces. By analyzing patterns in current and historical satellite images from locations around the world, students explore various types of landscape change and predict potentia...

 

Publisher: EcoEd Digital Library
View Resource Drought in East Africa

These Landsat images show Kenya’s Masai Mara Reserve on December 4, 1994, a year with normal rainfall, and November 27, 2009, a year when the rains failed and a severe drought overtook the land. The image to the right clearly shows that the only thriving vegetation is in small patches close to the larger rivers and streams; much of the remaining land is completely barren. The year 2009 sa...

 

Publisher: EcoEd Digital Library

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