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      <title>The Living World by edgar casanova</title>
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      <description>Our Planet Earth</description>
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      <pubDate>2018-11-12 17:08:04 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Natural Ecosystem Change</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div><strong>Climate Shifts- </strong>In the context of climate variation, anthropogenic factors are human activities which affect the climate. The scientific consensus on climate change is "that climate is changing and that these changes are in large part caused by human activities", and it "is largely irreversible".</div><div><strong>Species Movement-</strong> Biological dispersal refers to both the movement of individuals (animals, plants, fungi, bacteria, etc.) from their birth site to their breeding site ('natal dispersal'), as well as the movement from one breeding site to another ('breeding dispersal').</div><div><strong>Ecological Succession</strong>- The environmental movement, also including conservation and green politics, is a diverse scientific, social, and political movement for addressing environmental issues.</div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2018-11-12 17:13:01 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Ecosystem Diversity</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div><strong>Biodiversity-</strong> Biodiversity boosts ecosystem productivity where each species, no matter how small, all have an important role to play. For example, A larger number of plant species means a greater variety of crops. Greater species diversity ensures natural sustainability for all life forms.<br><strong>Natural Selection-</strong> is the differential survival and reproduction of individuals due to differences in phenotype. It is a key mechanism of evolution, the change in the heritable traits characteristic of a population over generations. </div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2018-11-12 17:13:23 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Energy Flow</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div><strong>Photosynthesis- </strong>the process by which green plants and some other organisms use sunlight to synthesize foods from carbon dioxide and water. Photosynthesis in plants generally involves the green pigment chlorophyll and generates oxygen as a byproduct.</div><div><strong>Cell respiration-</strong> is a set of metabolic reactions and processes that take place in the cells of organisms to convert biochemical energy from nutrients into adenosine triphosphate (ATP), and then release waste products.<br><strong>Food webs-</strong> is a linear network of links in a food web starting from producer organisms and ending at apex predator species, detritivores, or decomposer species. A food chain also shows how the organisms are related with each other by the food they eat. Each level of a food chain represents a different trophic level.<br><strong>Trophic Levels- </strong>each of several hierarchical levels in an ecosystem, comprising organisms that share the same function in the food chain and the same nutritional relationship to the primary sources of energy.<br><strong>Ecological Pyramids-</strong> is a graphical representation designed to show the biomass or bio productivity at each trophic level in a given ecosystem. Biomass pyramids show how much biomass is present in the organisms at each trophic level, while productivity pyramids show the procreation or turnover in biomass. </div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2018-11-12 17:13:30 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Ecosystem Structure (continued</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div><strong>Keystone Species- </strong>a species on which other species in an ecosystem largely depend, such that if it were removed the ecosystem would change drastically.<br><strong>Species Diversity- </strong>is the number of different species that are represented in a given community. The effective number of species refers to the number of equally abundant species needed to obtain the same mean proportional species abundance as that observed in the data set of interest.</div><div><strong>Major terrestrial Biomes- </strong>Tundra Rainforest, Savanna, Taiga, Temperate forest, Temperate grassland, Alpine, Chaparral.</div><div><strong>Aquatic Biomes- </strong>Ponds and lakes, Streams and rivers Wetlands, Oceans Coral reefs, Estuaries.</div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2018-11-12 17:13:41 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Natural Biochemical Cycles</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div><strong>Carbon Cycle- </strong>Link between photosynthesis in producers and respiration in producers, consumers, and decomposers. Additional CO2 added to the atmosphere- tree clearing, burning of fossil fuels, warms the atmosphere.<strong><br>Nitrogen- </strong>Nitrogen fixed by lightning, Nitrogen fixed by bacteria and cyanobacteria, Nitrification, Denitrification. <br>Human intervention in the nitrogen cycle; additional NO and N2O in atmosphere from burning fossil fuels, causes acid rain.<strong><br>Phosphorus- </strong>Cycles through water, the earth's crust, and living organisms. Limiting factor for plant growth, impact of human activities.<strong><br>Sulfur- </strong>Sulfur found in organisms, in the atmosphere, ocean sediments, soil, rocks, and fossil fuels. Human activities affect the sulfur cycle.<strong><br>Water cycles- </strong>Natural renewal of water equality; Evaporation, Precipitation, Transpiration. Alteration of the hydrogen cycle by humans, withdrawal of large amounts of freshwater at rates faster nature can replace it.<strong><br>Conservation of Matter- </strong>Matter cannot be created nor destroyed.</div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2018-11-12 17:14:07 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Ecosystem Structure</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div><strong>Biological Populations- </strong>refers to the biological study of animal populations. It is primarily concerned with the growth and regulation of population size, population genetics, demography and life history evolution, and the interactions among species.<strong> </strong></div><div><strong>Ecological Niches- </strong>a niche is the fit of a species living under specific environmental conditions. The ecological niche describes how an organism or population responds to the distribution of resources and competitors and how it in turn alters those same factors.</div><div><strong>Species Interactions-</strong>The interaction among organisms within or between overlapping niches can be characterized into five types of relationships: competition, predation, commensalism, mutualism and parasitism.</div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2018-11-12 17:36:19 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Ecosystem Diversity (continued)</title>
         <author>ecasanova990</author>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div><strong>Evolution-</strong> Evolution is change in the heritable characteristics of biological populations over successive generations. These characteristics are the expressions of genes that are passed on from parent to offspring during reproduction.<br><strong>Ecosystem Services-</strong> Ecosystem services are the many and varied benefits that humans freely gain from the natural environment and from properly-functioning ecosystems. Such ecosystems include, for example,, forest ecosystems, grassland ecosystems and aquatic ecosystems.</div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2018-11-16 17:43:38 UTC</pubDate>
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