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Environment 121

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Spring 2007

Syllabus

Lecture Notes:

The value of biodiversity
What is biodiversity and its global distribution?
Limitation of hotspots
Ecologically Sensitive Areas (ESAs)
The natural process of extinction
Habitat fragmentation
How bottom-trawling works
Global climate change I
Global climate change II
Impacts of human population growth
Island systems: A case study of the Hawaiian Islands

 

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