BIOLOGY 1M03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 36: Tropical And Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests, Restoration Ecology, Global Change
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Pollution: pollution of air, water and land, industrial pollutants, pesticides, oil spills. Global warming: predicted that 5. 5 degree celsius increase in temperature in the next. Hot spot: a relatively small area, many threatened and endangered species, large concentration of endemic species: tropical forest, chaparral: shrubs, high biodiversity, coral reefs, focus on protecting the hotspots. Published in the journal of science, in the 60"s reward their subjects. About a king, who was a good king who was a kind person and he wants to. Gives the subjects plots of land where they can do whatever they want. Commons: places where resources are owned in common, where everyone uses the resources and no direct owner can be found: found in the environment, no direct owner, owned by many or no one. There were some people who used more land than others, raised cattle and used more resources than sustainable.