BIOL 1070 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Global Warming

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Biology
• Course: BIOL 1070
• Professor: Shoshanah Jacobs Ryan Gregory

Document Summary

Physiology- how organisms survive in their environment, what are the conditions and what happens when they change. Camouflage: if you don"t change with the seasons (becoming a bigger problem) Can get different types of conditions, not just warming eg flooding, tornadoes etc. Traits at molecular and cellular levels can have bottom up affect: affects where you can live. Impact of timing of biological effects on ecosystem scale. Plants flowering earlier: fine for plants, could affect the things that eat the plants. They need the sea ice but also the land. Most abundant in canada: we"ll have a big affect on them. On the edges (islands or on land masses) Need the ice to hunt seals (their primary source: don"t feed while the ice coverage is gone. Overall, there"s been a reduction in amount of sea ice.