Journal of Environmental Science and Management 11(1):1-14 (June 2008) ISSN 0119-1144 Climate Change and Forest Ecosystems in the Philippines: Vulnerability‚ Adaptation and Mitigation Rodel D. Lasco‚ Florencia B. Pulhin‚ Patricia Ann J. Sanchez‚ Grace B. Villamor and Karl Abelard L. Villegas ABSTRACT Climate change and Philippine forests are directly linked to each other. Changes in climate are affecting the forests and its ability to deliver its environmental services. In the same manner
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In the rainforest ecosystem‚ everything is connected to one another. There is an interconnectedness existing in this ecosystem. To continue to function‚ the ecosystem depends on the interactions between the biotic and abiotic factors. An ecosystem survives by a combination of energy flow and matter recycling. To understand the interconnectedness of the ecosystem‚ food webs and food chains could be observed. Each organism depends on each other to survive and maintain their populations. In the food
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that are limiting the strength of our ecosystem. These factors have made many environments around the world very vulnerable. The main ecosystem I will focus on will be the habitats that tigers live in. More specifically I will focus on the effects that tigers have on their ecosystem and what would happen if tigers we to unfortunately go extinct. The tiger is one of the biggest components in its ecosystem besides for humans. Without tigers in their ecosystem their environment would completely fall
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A Local Ecosystem Biotic and Abiotic * Biotic Factors – living organisms (trees‚ birds‚ predators etc…) * Abiotic Factors – non living variables (temperature‚ oxygen levels etc…) Abiotic Characteristics of Environments Characteristics | Aquatic | Terrestrial | Viscosity (measure of a medium’s resistance to an object moving through it) | HIGH VISCOSITYDifficult for organisms to move through | LOW VISCOSITYEasy for organisms to move through | Buoyancy (amount of support experienced
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because in previous years and class we were just well known about the term “ecosystem” but now as we have done this project we have now learned various things about ecosystem in depth and that will help us in our course study in coming days. This project is based on term “ecosystem” and “Food chain” after going through it many will be able to answer these questions: * What is an ecosystem‚ and how can we study one? * Is the earth an open or closed system with respect to energy and elements
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Ecosystem and Living Organisms By: Tiepha Bridges University of Phoenix Instructor: Jonathan Neville February 29‚ 2012 Ecosystem and Living Organisms Gray wolves were once free to roam across Northern America‚ but this was before people hunted‚ trapped‚ and poisoned them. The drastic reduction of the Gray wolves in Northern America was a devastating blow to the ecosystem‚ but their extinction marked a critical loss
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fell victim to overharvesting‚ pollution‚ and global warming. With the coral reef being home to one-third of fish species‚ humans have severely impacted the fish species by destroying their homes. Overexploitation is a huge risk‚ and this became very evident when the wolf population in Yellowstone was wiped out. Every wolf was hunted and killed in Yellowstone‚ and once the wolves were gone‚ the ecosystem became very unbalanced and many species started to either die out or be overpopulated. As for
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A food web is the entirety of interrelated food chains in any and every ecosystem. This delicate balance is the connection between predator and prey‚ consumer and producer‚ and autotroph and heterotrophs. Food web’s also allows you to follow the direction of the flow of energy as each organism consumes each of their indicated food sources. For example‚ the energy from the sun is taken in by producers‚ such as ‚ trees‚ grass and fruit. Then goes to an autotroph would be eaten by a second trophic
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Christina Jackson Environmental sciences ECOSYSTEMS RAINFOREST By: Christina L. Jackson The business dictionary definition of rainforest is a dense forest of evergreen trees growing in regions of heavy year-round rainfall in tropical latitudes (such as Amazon Basin‚ Borneo‚ New Guinea‚ North-East India‚ and Zair Basin) and warm temperate latitudes (such as Eastern Australia‚ Florida‚ South Africa‚ South Brazil‚ South and Central China‚ South Japan‚ and New Zealand’s North Island). Nearly half
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What Shapes an Ecosystem? Ecosystems are made up of: * Biotic factors- all living parts of an ecosystem (plants‚ animals‚ bacteria) * Abiotic factors- all nonliving (but natural) parts of an ecosystem (soil‚ wind‚ water) These factors together (biotic and abiotic) determine which types of organisms can live in that particular ecosystem. A habitat- the place where an organism lives- includes both biotic and abiotic factors A niche includes both the habitat of an organism and its unique
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