Lecture 5 Flashcards by Justin Tirrell

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How have views about global ecology changed over time?

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What factors contibute to global change?

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What is an example of natural changes on a global scale?

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What are some examples of anthropogenic changes that occur on a global scale?

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Why does ENSO occur?

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What do the trade winds do to ocean waters during ENSO?

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What covers most of the oceans surface during ENSO?

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What does southern oscillation reffer to?

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What was the strongest ENSO on record until now?

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How does ENSO affect humans?

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How does ENSO affect plant growth?

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How does ENSO affect rodents?

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How does climate affect species abundance and distribution?

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How does ENSO affect the life history of a red kangaroo?

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How does ENSO affect the nutrient distribution in oceans?

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What happens to phytoplankton for fish during ENSO?

How does this affect NPP?

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Crash in fish populations has an effect on who?

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The 1983 ENSO event reduced what?
changed the location of what?

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What did the 1983 ENDO do to reproduction of many fish?

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How could we use dage distribution tables to identify what years ENSO caused reproductive failure?

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ENSO occasionally triggers what kind of events in temperate aquatic communities?

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What might have wiped out the Anasazi settlements?

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How big is the human populaiton supposed to be in 33 years?

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What kind of growth curve does Human population growth have?

exponential growth curve

How much has global temperature risen since 1880?

From 1860-1991, energy use per person rose more than \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ what the world poulation increased by only \_\_\_\_\_\_

Explain global warming

What isotopes are formed at low and high atmospheric temperature?

What anartic evidence do we have of climate change?

CO2has increased exponentially with three interuptions, what were they?

WWI, WWII, great depression

Why is there les Carbon 14 in the atmosphere than there used to be?

Name some of the evidence that reinforces climate change theory

Why is there less oxygen in the atmosphere?

Why can we argue that the sun isn't the cause of global warming?

How many hectacres have been converted to other land cover between 2000 and 2010?

What do land use changes do?

What does deforestation do?

What example of fragmentation was given in class?

What are edge effects?

How much effect does deforestation have per square area deforested?

Where did more than 30% of the changes in carbon flux come from over the last 150 years?

What are teh biggest contributers to global climate change?

How does pollution affect global ecology?

What do you find in the garbage patches?

What are the names of the garbage patches?

How do humans create global climate change and reduce biological diversity?

How many species of bird have gone extinct from *overhunting?*

How many Southeast Asian butterfly, bird, fish, and mammal species have gone extinct?

How has climate change chaned phenology/range?

What kind of variation in adaptability is there between species?

How do communities respond to climate change?

How did Verges predict that warm waters affect fish habitat?

How did the Gerges study quantify herbivory?

Findings of Verges 2016

What happened to the proportion of herbivorous fish when no kelp was present in the Verges study?

How are kelp consumption and abundance related?

How has community structure changed in verges study?

What happens when kelp forests decline?

What do ecosystems respond to climate change?

What happens to plant nutrition during climate change?

What happens to nitrogens added to the biosphere?

How does global warming affect human health?

How does global warming affect natural disasters?

How does global warming affect food security?