Lecture 11

Question 1

What are the types of direct effects of global change?

Answer 1

Temperature, acidification, destruction, asphyxiation

Question 2

What are the types of Indirect effects of global change?

Answer 2

habitat loss, life history shifts, range shifts, disease

Question 3

What causes problems with oxygen availability?

Answer 3

Higher temperatures = higher oxygen demands

•Higher temperatures = different oxygen solubility and diffusion dynamics

Question 4

What species does sea level rise effect the most?

Answer 4

species that live close to sea level as the get pushed into human development where they have nowhere to go. e.g saltmarsh

Question 5

What is example of habitat loss caused by climate change?

Answer 5

coral bleaching leads to species that live in lossing habitat.

Question 6

What is The problem with predicting tomorrow’s

biology based on today’s biology?

Answer 6

it ignores the problem with predicting tomorrow’s

biology based on today’s biology