Rainforest

The tragedy of the commons is an economic problem in which every individual tries to reap the greatest benefit from a given resource. As the demand for the resource overwhelms the supply, every individual who consumes an additional unit directly harms others who can no longer enjoy the benefits. Today I am going to be comparing Dr. Seuss's the Lorax and Easter island. There are three things I will be comparing they environmental damage, animal species extinct and human destruction.The first…

I select the project regarding World Bank support for Brazil’s “Polonoroeste” development program, in particularly the one which help the building of a highway in the middle of Amazonian state of Rondonia and Mato Grosso to start a new development area where before there was only forest. The project consisted in help the local civil government in develop new infrastructure such as road, agriculture fields and so one which can connect the coast area, the most developed one, to the Amazonian area…

Body The habitats in which carnivory is found include Bogs, Serpentine Fens, and epiphytic habitats. The main similarity between these environments is their lack of nutrients. In bogs this is caused by a low pH which means that they are acidic. In these acidic habitats nutrients are not able to be recycled. This is due to the fact that many of the organisms that would recycle these nutrients are unable to function at the low pH levels. In serpentine fens the low nutrients is cause by the amount…

Have you seen an animal as small as a grain of rice killing a tree and moving on to another? Well I have and it is called THE PINE BEETLE! In order to help the Pine Beetle problem we need to know how the pine beetle destroys trees, how that affects the environment, and what can be done about it. The pine beetle is an insect that is 5 millimeters long. It takes thousands of pine beetles to kill a healthy tree. It only takes 32 pine beetles to kill an unhealthy tree. While inside the tree…

In my opinion is that the government should make the canyon a park. The canyon would make an excellent park for people to go and enjoy. Where is Georgia's "Little Grand Canyon" The Canyon is located in Bumpkin, Georgia. It is near the Alabama border. The canyon was not a really a canyon. In the 1800s farmers began growing the time period's most profitable crop. The way they made the area look like it is today is by cutting down all the trees and started plowing and planting seeds in long…

The Asian longhorn beetle (anoplophora glabripennis), the Two Spotted Oak Buprestid (Agrilus Biguttatus) and the large pine weevil (hylobius abietis) and Their Relationship to Forests in the United Kingdom Miranda Sanderlin Summary Invasive species of beetle threaten forests in the United Kingdom every year with increasing impact. These beetles cause costly damage, both environmentally and ecologically. The Asian longhorn beetle (anoplophora glabripennis), the Two Spotted Oak Buprestid…

In the Lord of the Flies, William Golding uses figurative language at the beginning and end of chapters two and three to show the difference between Jack’s jungle and Simon’s jungle, and to illustrate that Jack’s jungle is chaotic, whereas Simon’s jungle is innocent. Since there is no adult figure on the island, the children first establish the leader of the group, which ended up being Ralph because he summoned everyone together by using a conch. Jack was immediately destroyed by the results of…

An invasive animal is an animal that has, or has the potential to have, a detrimental effect on economic, social or environmental assets (reference). Invasive animals in the region have caused widespread economic and environmental impact and have significant potential for further impact. The Invasive Animal Strategy aims to prevent the introduction and establishment of new high-risk invasive animals in the region, and to reduce the impact that invasive animals have on environmental, economical…

On the Adirondack Trip, a nice man named Paul discussed how they were managing their forests. Their forest tree species composition has been changing with sugar maple trees were becoming less abundant. This is partly caused by beech trees outcompeting the maples due to the stressor of beech bark disease. When a beech tree is affected by the disease, the stressor stimulates the tree to respond through the production of root suckers. These root suckers, which are genetic clones of their parent…

Introduction: Termites also called white ants or wood bugs are descendants of wood cockroach like insects and a sister group with the cockroach genus “Cryptocercus”. Due to their diverse diet, social structures, and phenotypes, termites are important organisms for economic and ecological reasons such as contributing to the decomposition of dead vegetation and enriching the soil. However, its well-known ability to damage human structures and agricultural crops, continue to cause billions of…