Introduction to Ecology and the Biosphere
This text provides a brief introduction to the scope of ecology; biogeography; terrestrial biomes; aquatic biomes and climate & the effects of global climate change. Advanced Placement® and AP® are trademarks registered and/or owned by the College Board, which is not affiliated with, and does not endorse, this textbook.
Topics
- aboveground biomass
- aquatic biome
- aquatic environment
- aquatic influence
- atmospheric carbon dioxide
- biogeography
- community ecology
- conspecific
- ecological research
- ecological study
- ecologist
- ecology study
- ecosystem service
- endemic
- energy source
- estuaries
- fall and spring turnover
- fall turnover
- freshwater biome
- geological climate change
- global climate
- global climate change
- greenhouse gas
- haze-effect cooling
- heterospecific
- inorganic nutrient
- interdisciplinary ecology
- lake
- marine biome
- Milankovitch cycle
- mutualism
- ocean upwelling
- organismal ecology
- pond
- population ecology
- predator
- present climate change
- sargassum
- solar intensity
- spring turnover
- terrestrial biome
- terrestrial environment
- terrestrial influence
- thermocline
- tropical wet forest
- industrial revolution
- soil
- arctic tundra
- biome
- boreal forest
- canopy
- chaparral
- net primary productivity
- subtropical desert
- temperate forest
- temperate grassland
- abyssal zone
- algal bloom
- aphotic zone
- benthic realm
- coral reef
- cryptofauna
- emergent vegetation
- estuary
- intertidal zone
- neritic zone
- oceanic zone
- pelagic realm
- photic zone
- planktivore
- source water
- ecosystem ecology
- channel
- abiotic
- biotic
- greenhouse effect
- biosphere
- wetland
- temperature
- climate
- weather
- permafrost
- ecosystem
- water
- climate change
- global warming
- river
- ecology
- clathrate
- stream