Just a Few Links/Tips to Get You Started on Your Research

Just a Few Links/Tips to Get You Started on Your Research

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.

Website that has important information on all aspects of environment:

Links for Biodiversity and Conservation

  • 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:
  • Learn about the importance of plant conservation and the preservation of the rainforest:
  • Biodiversity in the Indian River Lagoon: http://www.sms.si.edu/IRLSpec/index.htm
  • Take a virtual endangered species field trip:
  • Learn about island biogeography and fragmentation:
  • Biodiversity of Mexico:
  • of biodiversity in the Florida Everglades with great photos: http://fire.biol.wwu.edu/trent/alles/Everglades.pdf
  • "Bagheera," a website for endangered species:
  • The Mass government "Biodiversity Days" website has a biodiversity database and information:
  • The American Museum of Natural History's biodiversity site:
  • The World Wildlife Fund's "Wildfinder":
  • Conservation Internations's "Diversity Hotspots":
  • "Speciation and Biodiversity" discusses the development of new species and includes educator resources:
  • The "Tree of Life" web project provides information about the diversity of organisms on Earth, their evolutionary history (phylogeny), and characteristics:
  • Animal diversity web: http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/
  • The World Conservation Union's "Red List" of threatened species:
  • The website for "An Inconvenient Truth" includes a study guide:

Links for Population Growth and Environmental Effects.

  • 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: . . .
  • Carrying capacity description with good pictures:
  • 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:
  • Population projections from the U.S. Census Bureau: http://www.census.gov/population/www/projections/popproj.html
  • "Populus" simulations of population biology: http://www.cbs.umn.edu/populus/
  • Lesson on cities as population centers:
  • "Why Six Billion?" about the big baby boom:
  • See the current world population, compare it to years back to 1970, and forecast the population up until 2037:
  • American Association for the Advancement of Science's Atlas of Population and Environment:

Links for looking at specific biomes and succession

  • An introduction to biomes:
  • Tutorial on ecological succession for NY state regents exam:
  • Another ecological succession tutorial:
  • Tutorial on world biomes with good map:
  • Summary of biome characteristics: http://www.cotf.edu/ete/modules/msese/earthsysflr/summary.html
  • Pictoral examples of ecological succession:
  • "Mission: Biomes" contains a teacher resource page: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Laboratory/Biome/
  • Good slides explaining and illustrating aquatic biomes: . .
  • Slides for land biomes: . .
  • Good pictures of ecological succession:
  • Habitats and biomes with pictures and graph:
  • Another biomes tutorial: http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/exhibits/biomes/index.php
  • One final tutorial on biomes:
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