Today will be the second meeting of our Honors Evolution class. We started off discussing the (loose!) structure of the class, and today we'll discus...
From 8/22 class:
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comparing microbes, metazoans, algae/macrophytes
insolation, salinity, acidity, temperature, sea level, natural ...
It is easy to take Wikipedia for granted at this point in mid-2012: it is a thriving repository of information that started in 2001 and (as of right ...
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Synergistic Effects of Climate-Related Variables Suggest
Future Physiological Impairment in a Top Oceanic Predator
Rui Rosa and Brad A....
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Zooplankton, a tiny marine
organism, can hide from predators in areas of the ocean where oxygen levels are
too low for almost any...
As CO2 concentrations in the air increases, more CO2 will also be dissolved into the oceans. For plants such as seagrasses, this could pose a positive...
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Temperature Tolerance
Kelly et al. used the marine organism Tigriopus californicus to study the existence of local adaption that occurs in popu...
"Oxygen levels fell in Ice Age oceans"
http://www.futurity.org/earth-environment/oxygen-levels-fell-in-ice-age-oceans/
This
article is a su...
The article for this week was a very interesting one in that it continued to reinforce the ideas that we have been discussing in this seminar ove...
LINK DUMP! These are references a colleague pointed me to that help flesh out this problem a bit (vague pun):
Meekan:
[Download file "M...
We are halfway through this experiment. The discussion with students has been fantastic, and they are covering the topic well (while juggling other c...
As climate change continues to alter species' environmental niches, we know that organisms often move to different environments for which they ar...
An introduced species can be defined as a species that is living outside of its natural distribution range whether it has arrived there by accide...
Many studies look at the potential of organisms to adapt or acclimate to a changing climate. These studies are often based on the assumption that...
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Natural selection is the Darwinian notion that individuals that are better adapted to their environment will have a greater reproductive success....