Ecosystems: living communities - for iPod/iPhone
Ecosystems: living communities - for iPod/iPhone Podcast
1) Ecosystems: living communities
A short introduction to this album
2) What is an ecosystem?
How the definition of an ecosystem as "a living system of energy transfer" arose
3) The energy cycle
Understanding the role of the sun, carbon, and energy interactions between organisms in ecosystems
4) Humans enter the equation
How human activity affects the delicate energy balance in an ecosystem with often adverse consequences
5) Managing or meddling?
How ecosystems need careful understanding if we are to sustain them for the future whilst using them to our economic advantage
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