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Issues relating to the changing population have always been a heated debate among people willing to take advantage of the situation and those advocating to prevent the negative impacts that may result. ‘Urban sprawl’ is such an issue, defined as the ‘expanding of a population from an urban community towards rural areas surrounding the community.’ This expansion is driven by the need to accommodate a city’s growing population and also for financial gains. The issue of urban sprawl has various…

Existing for over 4.5 billion years, Earth has provided an environment with an abundant and diverse biodiversity with infinite types of organisms and many resources among the ecosystem. As the variety life on Earth survives from the provided resources, the biodiversity itself, however, isn’t sustaining very well after millions of years have passed. With the evolution of humans and population increasing, expansion and migration toward different areas eventually allowed humans to learn how to…

some animals and how they are impacted by global warming. (How) The Waterfowl is impacted by global warming because their food source, habitat, and migration cycles (Effect). Global warming is estimated to have a decline in the Prairie Pothole wetlands up to 92%, which can potentially lead to a 9-69%the reduction of ducks breeding affected their populations of mallards, gadwalls, blue-winged teals, northern pintails, canvasbacks, redheads, and ruddy…

RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SPECIES DIVERSITY AND SIZE Effect of Surface Area on the number of species in biodiversity. Yes, there is a relationship between species diversity and size, the smaller the habitat the less diversity of species there will be. Species diversity is the variety of organisms that make up a community It has two components: • SPECIES RICHNESS: is the total number of different species in the area • RELATIVE ABANDANCE: is the proportion each species represents in that certain…

1. Planning for changes is difficult due to the natural fluctuation of the great lakes water levels but there are factors that are certain that the levels as well as the region are changing negatively due to climate change (Kahl & Stirratt, n.d.). The water levels of the Great Lakes have declined over the past decades (“Climate Change Indicators: Great Lakes Water Levels and Temperatures”, 2016). Climate change is a change in typical weather that lasts longer than usual (“Climate Change, Health,…

pounds of meat a day and can travel up to 20 miles a day to find it. These wolves communicate in many ways, vocalization through howling, their body postures or facial expressions, and scent marking. The native habitats of Red wolves were forests, wetlands, mountains, and coastal prairies. Red wolves are habitat generalists which means they can live almost anywhere that their prey is and where there is minimal human involvement. Red wolves tend to live in dens located in dense vegetation and in…

Zebra Mussels Zebra mussels are a small freshwater mussel native to the lakes of southern Russia, deriving their name from the striped pattern typically found on their shells. Other possible patterns include white shell with brown edges as well as brown shells with white highlights. They were first described and recorded by a german zoologist by the name of Peter Simon Pallas in the year 1769 (USGS. 2015). Zebra mussels can still be found in Russian rivers but have also been accidentally…

In present day the USDA administers programs to help American farmers and ensure food safety for consumers. USDA aid includes distributing price supports and other subsidies to farmers, inspecting food processed at agricultural facilities, working to expand overseas markets for U.S. agricultural products, providing financing to expand job opportunities and improve housing, utilities, and infrastructure in rural America, and providing food assistance and nutrition education (Allgov.com). The USDA…

Northwest’s natural heritage. As they traveled through Washington these floods created scablands and dramatic dry canyons. Geologist J. Harlen Bretzs mentioned that in Oregon however, the floods created the exceptionally fertile, productive farmland, wetlands and aquifers found in the Willamette…

Many studies showed that road salt has negative effects on the survival rate of amphibian populations. According to Karraker, N. E., Gibbs, J. P., Vonesh, J. R., they found that large quantities of road salt decreased survival in both Spotted salamanders and Wood frogs. Survival of their embryos also decreased significantly. Amphibians have a lower chance to metamorphose, which is the process of an organism to develop into an adult, causing a lower a survival rate. Sanzo, D., and Hecnar, S. J.…