ENWC201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Global Warming In Tuvalu, Shortwave Radiation, Coral Reef

• School: University of Delaware
• Department: Entomology and Wildlife Conservation
• Course: ENWC201
• Professor: Mc Carthy Kyle

Document Summary

Weather is daily while climate is overall in month. Cretaceous (co2: beginning of cretaceous- warm environment- lots of gg, anoxic wet environment- lots of shallow seas: warm, humid, and wet, rise of angiosperms (flowering plants), and bees b. i. Proliferate and cover earth"s surface, and then eventually all die b. ii. Tertiary period: rise of trees- tertiary trees replace cretaceous angiosperm and reduce carbon levels, climate- poles are now covered with ice and snow, glacial cycling- 10,000 years ago ice age stopped. Temperature: temperature will and have been increasing, impacts, loss of species and habitat, coral reef thermal stress increase, food producing algae leaves coral with high increasing temperatures c. i. The problem is that times are out of sync for different types of animals: mismatches phenology f. i. English oak leafs out earlier, winter moth hatches earlier, pied flycatcher (in western africa) doesn"t experience the same temperature increase, so it shows up late when the.