PPT-Understanding Ecosystems and Their Services

GEOSS Symposium The Scientific Benefits of Data Sharing 16 November 2009 Anthony C Janetos Director Joint Global Change Research Institute Chair GOFCGOLD Outline The context of ecosystem services. Expert Group meeting on Ecosystem Accounts, . Melbourne, 18 May 2012. Overview. T. he sequence of SNA accounts. relevance to ecosystem accounting?. Combined (i.e. monetary and physical) presentations related to . Energy Powers Ecosystems. Sustainable Practices. Ecologists and economists characterize practices that can be continued indefinitely as . sustainable. .. Ecological Footprint. T. he . area of land required to sustainably provide all resources a population uses and assimilate all the waste it generates, given the prevailing current technology.. By Renee Swank. In this activity you will learn all about the types of ecosystem. You can read all of the material and watch a short video on ecosystems. After you have read the material and watched the video, you can take the short quiz to see how much you learned!!. . Table of Contents. Section 3: . Aquatic Ecosystems. Section 1: . How Ecosystems Change. Section 2: . Biomes. Chapter: Ecosystems. . Table of Contents. Section 1: . How Ecosystems Change. Mosses from my back yard. - Jacques Ives Cousteau. 2. New Orleans is nested between the mouth of the Mississippi River and the brackish estuary of Lake Pontchartrain.. 3. A series of floodwalls, or levees, protects the city from ocean surges from large storms.. Chapter 3 (Miller and . Spoolman. , 2010). Core Case Study: Tropical Rain Forests Are Disappearing. Cover about 2% of the earth’s land surface. Contain about 50% of the world’s known plant and animal species. Aquatic ecosystems are primarily determined by the ecosystem’s . salinity. . Salinity refers to the dissolved salt content of the water.. Aquatic ecosystems are divided into freshwater and marine ecosystems.. What are Ecosystems? . Groups of living things and the non-living environment in which they live.. The people that study ecosystems are called: . “ecologists.”. Let’s look at the living parts of the ecosystem:. Ocean Zones & Ecosystems. Freshwater Zones & Ecosystems. Related Ecology. Benthic Division. 6 Areas. . 1. Supralittoral zone. (supra= upper, litus=shore). . Water splashes but does not stay submerged. PEWI. ):. A dynamic land-use and ecosystem service tradeoffs assessment . tool. Why PEWI?. How agriculture can produce outcomes that society desires. How we can learn. Complex social-ecological relationships. LO: . I can define and differentiate biotic and abiotic factors in an ecosystem . (5.L.4A.1). . EQ: . How do biotic and abiotic factors interact with each other in an ecosystem?. Ecosystem. Ecosystem. What is ecology?. It is the science that studies how . organisms. relate to each other and their . environment. .. Considers both . biotic. (living) and . abiotic. (nonliving) aspects.. Examples of abiotic factors: . Getting started. You’ll need a notepad on which to make notes as you go along, or you could make notes, paste images, etc. on your device.. You can view these slides:. as a slide-show for any animations and to follow links. Latin America and the Caribbean:. An Economic Valuation of Ecosystems. UNDP. Latin America and the Caribbean: A Biodiversity Super Power. Basic facts on the Report’s methodology. A . sectoral. analysis based Report.