Online exams: https://www.eztestonline.com/207829/index.tpx
Biome map: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biomes#Map_of_Biomes
Large version: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7b/Vegetation-no-legend.PNG
Hawai'i Biome pdf (n.b. contains some errors): http://www.laniainakai.com/envir_sci/files/sci103_notes/keynote/biomes.pdf
Chapter images: http://physics.hpa.edu/physics/apenvsci/cc15/chapt05_image.pdf
Subethaedit link: http://www.codingmonkeys.de/subethaedit/
Online grades: http://physics.hpa.edu/~admin/grades/apes/
APES resources folder: http://physics.hpa.edu/physics/apenvsci/
Textbook: Cunningham and Cunningham: http://physics.hpa.edu/physics/apenvsci/cc15/
Practice Exam: http://highered.mcgraw-hill.com/sites/0073383244/student_view0/chapter5/practice_quiz.html
Tellico Dam exercise: http://highered.mcgraw-hill.com/sites/0073383244/student_view0/chapter5/tellico_dam__p_120_.html
Wikipedia on Biomes: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biomes
Global Footprint exercise:
e2: Seoul-stream of consciousness
Due Sunday 10.16.11
Practice Exam: http://highered.mcgraw-hill.com/sites/0073383244/student_view0/chapter5/practice_quiz.html
Tellico Dam exercise: http://highered.mcgraw-hill.com/sites/0073383244/student_view0/chapter5/tellico_dam__p_120_.html
Text notes:
Chapter 5 notes: biomes and biodiversity
Yellowstone example: food web, ecosystem
Anthropocentric view: elk are for hunters, wolves eat sheep
Sea ranch: sheep decreased the gopher population: why?
Biodiversity is another example of dynamic equilibrium: the sign of a stable system
Biomes: who do you trust? why? is it what they will always do, or what they would never do?
Imagine snow in the amazon rain forest…
biomes develop that reflect the traits of temperature and water (also substrate/soil, topography or wind)
vertical donation: going up a mountain is like going up latitudes
Mt. Waialeale on Kauai has 400+ in. rain per year, that's over 1000 cm/yr (see graph)
Why is rain related to NPP? What is NPP?
In this text, there are 9 biome types, grouped by tropical, temperate, cold and the outlier: desert (dry)
Rain is important, but so is eTo, evapo-transpiration rate http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evapotranspiration
Tropical soils:
Wet, lots of rain, poor soil conditions (percolation and rapid uptake of nutrients)
Brazil: rainforest->beef cattle what impact?
Biomes:
Tropical:
rainforest
seasonal forest
Temperate:
savanna
grasslands
scrublands
forests (deciduous and evergreen)
Cold:
boreal forest
(tiaga)
tundra
Really, really dry:
Desert (not dessert)
What is the impact of Global Climate Change (GCC) on these biomes?
Marine (e.g. ocean)
similar: altitude is like depth, rainfall is like distance to shore (loose similarity)
depth means colder and darker (less photosynthesis)
close to shore means warmer, more animals, shore nutrients, bathers, sharks, rubber ducks...
Pelagic means "open sea"
Benthic means "really deep"
Hadal means "deep as Hell" (no joking: Hades is Hell)
Freshwater (e.g. lakes, rivers, streams)
Limnological means lakes
Riparian means rivers and streams
Littoral means marsh
Class notes/subethaedits:
Many biome classifications (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biome)
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