01:450:102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Harold A. Mooney, Jane Lubchenco, Nitrogen Fixation
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Sketch the authors" background (vitousek, mooney, etc. ) (profession, publication date, title, contribution, significance) (50 to 100 words) Peter m. vitousek and harold mooney are stanford university biologists, jane. Lubchenco is a scientist and a marine ecologist of the national oceanic and atmospheric. Administration, and jerry m. melillo is a scientist of woods hole marine biological. These four contributed in presenting an overview which describes in depth the way that human activity has made a global impact on the ecosystems during the past hundred years. Together they created the piece human domination of earth"s. Ecosystems which was published on july 25th, 1997. Describe the extent (with details) to which human activities impact the global environment. (100 to 150 words) Human activities have greatly, and negatively, impacted the global environment. Figure 2 from human domination of earth"s ecosystems, this impact is described in the form of a bar graph which shows the percentage of change in each of the seven systems discussed.
