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  • 1: Systems
    • 1.1. 1: Systems
    • 1.1. 2: Types of System
    • 1.1. 3: Energy in Systems
    • 1.1. 4: Equilibria
    • 1.1. 5: Feedback systems
    • 1.1. 6: Transfers and Transformations
    • 1.1. 7: Flows and Storages
    • Review questions for Topic 1
  • 2: The Ecosystem
    • 2.1. 1: Biotic and Abiotic.
    • 2.1. 2: Trophic Levels
    • 2.1. 3: Food chains and Food webs
    • 2.1. 4: Ecological pyramids
    • 2.1. 5: Pyramids and Ecosystem Function
    • 2.1. 6: Ecological definitions
    • 2.1. 7: Population interactions
    • 2.2. 0: Measuring abiotic components of the system
    • 2.3. 4: What is diversity
    • 2.3. 5: Simpsons diversity index
    • 2.4. 1: Biomes
    • 2.4. 2: Why are Biomes where they are?
    • 2.5. 1: Producers, Consumers and Decomposers
    • 2.5. 2: Photosynthesis and respiration within ecosystems
    • 2.5. 3: Energy flow through the ecosystems
    • 2.5. 4: Transfers and Transformations - Global Cycles
    • 2.5. 5: Productivity
    • 2.5. 6: Primary and Secondary Productivity
    • 2.6. 1: Limiting factors and population growth
    • 2.6. 2: Population Growth
    • 2.6. 3: Population Regulation
    • 2.6. 5: Succession
    • 2.6. 6: Succession, Productivity and Diversity.
    • 2.6. 7: What controls the Climax?
    • 2.7. 3: Environmental Impact Assessment
    • Review questions for Topic 2
  • 3: Human population, carrying capacity and resource use
    • 3.1 Population Dynamics
      • 3.1.1: Growth in Human Populations
    • 3.2: Resources—natural capital
      • 3.2. 1: Natural capital
      • 3.2. 5: Sustainability
      • 3.2. 7: Sustainable Yield
    • 3.3: Energy Resources
      • 3.3. 1: Available Energy Resources
      • 3.3. 2: Evaluating Energy Sources
      • 3.3. 3: Choice of Energy Sources
    • 3.4 The Soil System
      • 3.4. 1: Soil As A System
      • 3.4. 2: Soil Structure
      • 3.4. 3: Process and Consequences of Soil Degradation
    • 3.5: Food Resources
      • 3.5. 2: Efficiency of Food Production
      • 3.5. 3: Impacts of Farming Systems
    • 3.6: Water Resources
      • 3.6. 1: Describe the Earth’s water budget.
    • Review questions for Topic 3
  • 4: Conservation and Biodiversity
    • 4.1. 1: Biodiversity in Ecosystems
    • 4.1. 3: Evolution and Isolation
    • 4.2: Evaluating Biodiversity and Vulnerability
      • 4.2. 4: What makes an organism prone to extinction
    • 4.3:Conservation of Biodiversity
    • Review Questions for Topic 4
  • 5: Pollution Management
    • 5.1. 1: What is pollution?
    • 5.3. 1: Approaches to pollution management
    • 5.3. 2:Human factors and pollution management
    • 5.3. 3:DDT
    • 5.4. 0: Eutrophication
    • 5.4. 3: Managing Eutrophication
    • 5.5. 1:Domestic Waste
      • European Domestic Waste
    • 5.5. 2:Approaches to Waste Management
    • 5.7. 0: Urban Air Pollution
    • 5.8. 2: Acidification
  • 6: The issue of Global Warming
    • 6.1. 1: The Natural Greenhouse Effect
    • 6.1. 2: Human activity and Greenhouse gases
    • 6.1. 5: Reducing Global Warming
  • 7: Environmental value systems
    • 7.1. 1: World Views
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