ES293 Midterm: ES293 MIDTERM REVIEW.docx
Document Summary
About human behavior and the relationship between humans and the environment. Help to understand development, behavior and personality. Throughput rates of flow ex. trampled vegetation of humans using system. Homeostasis: keeping internal conditions steady as external conditions change. Feedback: process that maintains equilibrium, can be positive (continuing ex. arctic sea ice) or negative (reversing) Gap phase forests: tree ages and dies, opens up for other species. When we clear cut the rainforest it cannot adjust to this like the boreal. Carrying capacity: the maximum population size of the species that the environment can sustain indefinitely, given the food, habitat, water and other necessities available in the environment. Controls of wildlife population: population control, starvation, disease, accidents, weather, hunting, predators. Threshold: once past the threshold cannot go back level of stress and tolerance of the environment, things you cannot track. Alternative stable state: one system can have more than one state, depending on what it"s been exposed to.
