BIO 2129 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Evapotranspiration, Exponential Growth, Earth System Research Laboratory

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Most lands nowadays are heavily changed: human activities cause virtually all extinctions, extinctions are now occurring at a pace comparable to that last seen at the end of the age of the dinosaurs, one role of ecology is to provide scientific underpinnings for conservation activities, this requires knowledge of different forms of natural and anthropogenic change (e. g. disturbance form human (road), natural (volcanic), the loss of species is not only an ethical dilemma but a practical one, species, even rare ones, in ecosystems contribute it ecosystem, the biophysical processes of an ecosystem are known as ecosystem functions, when those functions benefit humans either economically or otherwise, they are know as ecosystem (bees, ecosystem are responsible for, flood control (wet lands are an amazing way to stop flooding, mangrove trees. , soil creation, regulation of the hydrological cycle, atmospheric regulation, climate regulation, provision of renewable resources, pollination, etc. , ecosystem services were worth ~ 33 trillion.