RNR 1001 Lecture : RNR 1001 All Notes
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Service policies that favored harvesting in national forests: considered 3 phases in the development of human ethics, relationships among individuals, relationships b/w individuals and society, the individual"s relationship to land and nature. Mediterranean mosquitoes malaria: salinization from irrigation crop reductions, species extinctions loss of mesocarnivores (foxes, badgers, etc. Improvement is likely to be detrimental: there is no such thing as a free lunch, resource use will result in conversion from useful to useless forms. Absorbs quite a bit of co2, but is also not included in this equation: ecological footprint calculated by country. Ecosystem changes related to population growth can be: Structural, i. e. , changes in the physical components of ecosystems, , functional i. e. , changes in the processes and relationships among physical components: b. Structurally, increasing human population size generally results in habitat loss and reductions in habitat complexity: habitat conversion from urbanization(and infrastructure), agriculture, and deforestation, habitat loss and alteration cause declines in biodiversity, which can also be affected by:
