CHEM 1040 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Soil Food Web, Agroecosystem, Agroecology

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Monday, january 8, 2018: midterm, february 14th. Glyphosate resistant fleabane: herbicide resistant weeds, tolerant to the herbicides, example: soybean field (cannot see the soybean plants) Function among biotic & abiotic factors managed to maximize yield. Various components that complete this, if you disturb it (like a web), it can become a leaky system (this can be broken up by things like tilling the soil. System stability (depends on the stability of the system) Dakota, texas, & wyoming: dead zone gulf of mexico (11,000km2, hypoxic (oxygen deficient) waters. The tragedy of the commons, which predicts excessive rates of depletion under common property situations seeks (cid:862)picture a pasture open to all. And another, and anotherbut conclusion reached by each and every herdsman sharing a commons. Each man is locked into a system that compels him to increase his herd without limit in a world that is limited(cid:863). a this is.