KEYSTONE SPECIES-BEES Elliott Chang Keystone Species are species that would affect our lifestyle and how we live if they were to die out. There called Keystone Species because in an arch‚ there is one stone that keeps the 2 halves of the arch in place and if you were to take it out‚ everything would collapse. Bees are like that. Bees contribute to our society economically‚ ecologically and biologically. They are the species that really make everything the way it is for us. Bees contribute
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Ethical and Regulatory Environment – a Look at the Keystone Pipeline Abstract/Executive Summary TransCanada’s proposed Keystone XL pipeline is a $7 billion project to bring heavy‚ sour crude oil from tar sands production in Alberta‚ Canada to Port Arthur‚ Texas for refining. It has sparked an ongoing struggle as advocates and opponents of the project make their case in various ways to the Obama Administration (Anonymous‚ 2011‚ Keystone XL Exposed). But is this pipeline ethically the right
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President Obama should reject the Keystone XL pipeline. Canadian Alberta Oil Sands production is set to double by 2020‚ and the oil companies must find new markets for this oil. The key enabler to transport all this excess oil into new markets is a company called TransCanada‚ a Canadian pipeline company. Keystone XL pipeline is a project proposed by TransCanada with 1‚179 mile (1‚897 km)‚ 36-inch diameter crude oil pipeline beginning in Hardisty‚ Alberta‚ Canada and extending south through American
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This research was processed through The Keystone Predator model‚ based upon experiments preformed in the 1960’s along the rocky shore of Washington. This environment is the region between the high and low tide levels of a rocky shoreline. The community and population of the environment must survive the cold air and the nature of waves. 9 different species and their populations were simulated. The simulated environmental community contains 4 species of mobile consumers‚ 3 species of filter feeders
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devil facial tumor disease (DFTD) emerged in the mid-1990’s‚ the Tasmanian devils’ population has been on a rapid decline. As these devils are a keystone species of their ecosystem‚ their decline has allowed non-native predators such as cats and black rats to flourish and decrease the number of native prey. This effect is an example of the top-down keystone predator hypothesis. Due to the downfall of the devils‚ Australia’s once most intact faunal communities has diverted into an invasive state with
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Keystone Computers & Networks‚ Inc. December 31‚ 20X5 Memorandum on Accounting Issues: Accounting for Capitalization of Software Development Costs Memorandum To: Keystone Computers & Networks‚ Inc. From: Adams‚ Barnes & Co. Date: 11/17/2015 Note: KCN is currently developing networking software products to sell and started capitalizing costs in FY 20X5. The accounting procedures are described under FASB ASC 985-20-25 Costs of software to be sold‚ leased‚ or marketed. https://law.resource.org/pub/us/code/bean/fasb
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CIVIL ENGINEERING Term Project: Systems Analysis of a Large-Scale Facility Spring 2014 The CEE 3000 term project requires you to examine and conduct a system analysis of a large- scale civil-engineered facility to assess the sustainability of the facility using the Sustainability Engineering (SE) framework presented in the course. The purpose of the system analysis will be to assess how sustainable or unsustainable the facility is and what actions can be taken to improve it. The project will
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American Beaver‚ is a keystone species on the verge of extinction. It lives in the northern regions of North America‚ specifically in Canada and the United States. Its status on the IUCN red list is endangered. This species is very beneficial‚ but is racing extinction due to people not seeing the importance it does to both humans and the ecosystem alike. The benefits of these beavers are that they prevent water floods and regulate water flow which fulfills their keystone niche and is also a human
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Keystone Pipeline Project The United States is a fossil fuel hungry nation whose economy‚ markets‚ and transportation is highly dependent on the abundance of crude oil and petroleum. Although there is roughly 85.9 billion barrels of undiscovered technically recoverable crude oil currently in the form of oil shale located beneath our soil‚ we still rely on imports from foreign countries. With a crude oil and petroleum product net import of 7‚270 thousand barrels per day the United States is one
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The Keystone XL pipeline is a pipeline that runs from Canada to the United States. This pipeline would take expensive Canadian tar sand oil in Alberta to the southeast part of Texas next to the Gulf of Mexico‚ so petroleum products can be transported around the world. This great project would supply petroleum demands and create many jobs. The battle between industrialists for the petroleum and the environmentalists against the petroleum has great influence on the Keystone pipeline. The only thing
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