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Reading Assignments
Read Neotropical Companion: Chapters 1,2,4,5,8,11,14
Based on your readings please answer the following questions in essay form in no more than three typed pages. Use your textbook as a resource. Please send your responses by e-mail or disk on or before AUGUST 1 to :
- Dr. Jack Holt
- Box 325
- 1 West Front Street
- Freeburg, PA 17827
- 570-374-5324
- How would you contrast the expected ecosystems in Puerto Rico with the ecosystems in Pennsylvania?
- What is the relationship between climate and biodiversity?
- What is the relationship between evolution, extinction, and biodiversity?
- How is evolution a product of competition and cooperation? Give an example of each.
- What is the relationship between landforms (geomorphology) and the diversity of life? Give examples from the following ecosystems- riverine, Mangrove cay, coral reef.
- How important is biodiversity? What is the result of the loss of biodiversity at rates beyond those expected? Give examples of ways humans impact the loss of biodiversity.