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- Present the data shown
in Table 1.1 in Physical Geography as a bar chart.
Think carefully about the kind of bar chart to use.
- Draw a diagram showing
how terrestrial ecosystems regulate the carbon cycle.
Material in Chapter 3 may help in answering this question.
- Access the IUCN’s
redlist website – http://www.redlist.org.
Go to Summary Statistics. Go to Table 5.
(a) Which country has the most number
of threatened mammal species?
(b) Which country has the most number
of threatened bird species. Calculate the total number
of threatened species in each continent.
(c) Which
continent has the highest number of threatened species and which
has the lowest number?
- Obtain a copy of the
following paper: Jackson, S. T.,
Futyma, R. P., and Wilcox, D. A. (1988) A paleoecological
test of a classic hydrosere in the Lake Michigan dunes Ecology
69, 928–36.
Describe the indicators used in the reconstruction
work and the dating methods employed.
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