Some additional reading on Ecology (Module 2)
- Ecosystems -
an introduction to terms and concepts
- How Much Energy Does
It Take to Keep a Wolf Happy? - a short problem to help you understand
energy flow through food chains
- What is Entropy? - Explanations for mature adults
- Lynx
reintroduction in Colorado - Applying your BIOL 198 lessons in the real
world
- Biomes -
The World's Biomes
- Landscape
Ecology and Biogeography - A list of links for the ecologists,
geographers, and other curious folks
- Symbioses: A
site with some fascinating information about various organisms and their
symbiotic relationships with bacteria!
- Weird parasite biology! Read about how a parasitic worm in Australia zombifies its host (a grasshopper) and makes it commit suicide by drowning!
- More parasite evolutionary biology - Why are human bodies almost hairless, when our closest relatives are pretty furry?
- The Ecotron
- Read about this experimental design, which is used to study the dynamics
of soil microorganism and microarthropod communities
- US and World
Population Clocks and other data - from the US Census Bureau
- Biodiversity
and its Value - From Australia, but the ideas and concepts are globally
relevant
- Biodiversity:
Why It Matters - An article by Peter Raven, Director of the Missouri
Botanical Garden
- Committee on Recently Extinct
Organisms - A resource for finding out about all those organisms that
have gone extinct in recent times, mostly due to the direct or indirect
actions of humans.
- Scientific American: Mapping Mercury - Hot-spot unknowns complicate mercury regulations
- Newsweek article on DDT - another environmental toxin that can be concentrated in upper trophic levels
- What is
Eutrophication? Learn that word, and a lot more, at this Website
from the U. of Manitoba
- Photos of freshwater organisms - to help you identify those critters you see in the microscope during class 4 of this module
- What kinds of diatoms and algae are in your water? Learn more from this interactive
web site from Arizona State University. This site has a lot of more nice photomicrographs of aquatic microorganisms to help you identify those critters you see in the microscope during class 4 of this module
- Harmful Algae and Red Tides - Lots of information on this growing problem, from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute
- Lots more pictures of, and information about, aquatic organisms can be found at The Smallest Page On The Web
, a microscopy website from the UK.
