GPHY 207 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Urban Heat Island, Lapse Rate, Middle Latitudes
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News articles: conservation areas for species in the usa on military land (good pr), amphibian decline and its relationship with chytrid fungus (likes cool conditions)! Overall the increase in cloud cover makes for cooler days and warmer notes; this favours the particular fungus : age of oldest species alive! Stromatolite: calcareous mound bilt up of layers of lime secreting cyanobacteria and trapped sediment, found in precambrian rocks as the earliest fossils still being formed in lagoons in australasia! Single celled organisms found in permafrost and are 400-600k years old that are still alive: older trees grow faster than younger trees ! -measure the changes in tree size to indirectly measure npp! -90% of giant trees are growing faster than their younger counterparts ! -total growth is the area of the new ring compared to the original ring: smallest farmer around? amoebas! Social network allows sing-celled life-forms to be migrant farmers"!
