LIFESCI 2X03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Ottawa National Wildlife Refuge, Nitrogen Cycle, Lake Erie
14 Jul 2018
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Services provided by wetlands: provisioning, cultural, regulating, supporting. The ottawa national wildlife refuge and human health study: context, main findings and conclusions. Areas: where the land is saturated with water. These areas have poor drainage so the water builds up. Build up of oxygen so it takes a longer time to degrade. Vegetation is not able to survive in a lot of water/oxygen filled. Cover 1. 2 million km^2: wetlands and human well-being. Wetlands are critical areas in terms of their water. Type of environment where microbes break down different contaminants. A lot of wildlife for people to observe the outdoors. Lots of interesting species for hunting, gaming, fishing. Trees are also vegetation for logging, and the fruit can serve as a foodsource. Up to 70,000 species of plants are used today for medicinal purpose. We"ve been using all parts of plants for medicine since 4000 bc. Tend to bury carbon (remove it from the atmosphere)
