Just a few links/tips to get you started on your research.
Using your own Word Document, or your own paper, compile your evidence,
being sure to save the source of your information (Website, Title of
What you found your evidence in, and Date). Remember to follow our 3
learning targets to guide your research.
1. Gather evidence that shows how changes to the ecosystem can
affect populations (what is happening to the ecosystem and how is it
affect the animals in that ecosystem)
2. Research Physical and Biological Changes that occur in an
Ecosystem. (Physical are things that affect the physical
environment, like logging, erosion, habitat loss, etc. Biological would
be disease, invasive species, pollution, etc.)
3. Construct a solution or argument to these problems you have
identified.
DO GOOD WORK!!
World Wildlife Fund- Provides a few threats to the ecosystems around
the world if you are having trouble thinking of a topic.
http://worldwildlife.org/threats
Website that has important information on all aspects of environment:
http://www.enviroliteracy.org/index.php
Links for Biodiversity and Conservation
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Enter the local zip code and the site will load the trees,
mammals, amphibians, and wildflowers found in the area. A
comprehensive set of field guides are also available for trees,
mammals, amphibians, wildflowers, and much more:
http://www.enature.com/home/
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Learn about the importance of plant conservation and the
preservation of the rainforest:
http://www.mobot.org/MOBOT/Research/unseengarden/matr
ix1.shtml
Biodiversity in the Indian River Lagoon:
http://www.sms.si.edu/IRLSpec/index.htm
Take a virtual endangered species field trip: http://www.fieldtrips.org/sci/endanger/index.htm
Learn about island biogeography and fragmentation:
http://www.bagheera.com/inthewild/spot_spisland.htm
Biodiversity of Mexico: http://www.vivanatura.org/
of biodiversity in the Florida Everglades with great photos:
http://fire.biol.wwu.edu/trent/alles/Everglades.pdf
"Bagheera," a website for endangered species:
http://www.bagheera.com/
The Mass government "Biodiversity Days" website has a
biodiversity database and information:
http://maps.massgis.state.ma.us/Biodiversity/BiodiversityDay
s.htm
The American Museum of Natural History's biodiversity site:
http://www.amnh.org/nationalcenter/it_takes_all_kinds/index
.html
The World Wildlife Fund's "Wildfinder":
http://www.worldwildlife.org/wildfinder/
Conservation Internations's "Diversity Hotspots":
http://www.biodiversityhotspots.org/xp/Hotspots
"Speciation and Biodiversity" discusses the development of
new species and includes educator resources:
http://actionbioscience.org/biodiversity/wilson.html
The "Tree of Life" web project provides information about
the diversity of organisms on Earth, their evolutionary history
(phylogeny), and characteristics:
http://tolweb.org/tree/phylogeny.html
Animal diversity web: http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/
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The World Conservation Union's "Red List" of threatened
species: http://www.iucnredlist.org/
The website for "An Inconvenient Truth" includes a study
guide: http://www.aninconvenienttruth.com.au/truth/
Links for Population Growth and Environmental Effects.
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The U.S. Census bureau lets you find the population of any
area of the U.S from the 2000 census as well as two other
surveys:
http://factfinder.census.gov/servlet/AGSGeoAddressServlet
?_lang=en&_programYear=50&_treeId=420 . . .
A population biology online quiz:
http://java.glencoe.com/servlets/BQCall?DISPLAY=4&CHAPT
ER=4&BOOK=001&TITLE=Biology:+The+Dynamics+of+Life . . .
Carrying capacity description with good pictures:
http://mmcconeghy.com/students/supcarryingcapacity.html
Grided Population of the World and the Global Rural-Urban
Mapping Project: http://www.census.gov/ipc/www/idb/
HumPop is a multimedia tutorial program. HumPop introduces
and illustrates population concepts and issues. It can be used
with IntlPop from the activities section:
http://geosim.cs.vt.edu/huip.html
This page allows you to obtain population pyramids (graphs
that show the distribution of population by age and sex) for
one country: http://www.census.gov/ipc/www/idbpyr.html
Most everything you ever wanted to know about populations:
http://www.scalloway.org.uk/popu.htm
Population projections from the U.S. Census Bureau:
http://www.census.gov/population/www/projections/popproj.h
tml
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"Populus" simulations of population biology:
http://www.cbs.umn.edu/populus/
Lesson on cities as population centers:
http://www.sciencenetlinks.com/lessons.php?Grade=68&BenchmarkID=4&DocID=278
"Why Six Billion?" about the big baby boom:
http://whyfiles.org/096y6b/
See the current world population, compare it to years back to
1970, and forecast the population up until 2037:
http://www.ibiblio.org/lunarbin/worldpop/
American Association for the Advancement of Science's Atlas
of Population and Environment: http://atlas.aaas.org/
Links for looking at specific biomes and succession
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An introduction to biomes:
http://www.onlinebiologydegree.com/resources/introductionto-biomes/
Tutorial on ecological succession for NY state regents exam:
http://regentsprep.org/Regents/biology/units/ecology/ecologi
cal.cfm
Another ecological succession tutorial:
http://www.physicalgeography.net/fundamentals/9i.html
Tutorial on world biomes with good map:
http://www.blueplanetbiomes.org/world_biomes.htm
Summary of biome characteristics:
http://www.cotf.edu/ete/modules/msese/earthsysflr/summar
y.html
Pictoral examples of ecological succession:
http://www.countrysideinfo.co.uk/successn/
"Mission: Biomes" contains a teacher resource page:
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Laboratory/Biome/
Good slides explaining and illustrating aquatic biomes:
http://www.mhhe.com/biosci/esp/2001_es/. . .
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Slides for land biomes:
http://www.mhhe.com/biosci/esp/2001_es/. . .
Good pictures of ecological succession:
http://library.thinkquest.org/17456/succession1.html
Habitats and biomes with pictures and graph:
http://library.thinkquest.org/11922/habitats/habitats.htm
Another biomes tutorial:
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/exhibits/biomes/index.php
One final tutorial on biomes: http://www.worldbiomes.com/