Tragedy of the Commons

Rachel Carson

Nonrenewable resources

Developed Countries

Ecological footprint

Law of Conservation of Matter

10% rule

synergy

biosphere

biomes

persistence

Bioaccumulation

1st law of thermodymanics

Point (sources)

poverty

Stewardship view

biodiversity

Exponential growth

Negative feedback loop

Organic

undernutrition

Traditional Subsistence Agriculture

Logistic growth

matter

2nd law of thermodynamics

isotope

R-strategist

specialist

heterotroph

Natural selection

producers

NPP or Net Primary Productivity

abiotic

Tundra

Temperate Deciduous Forest

Limiting factors

Intertidal zone

decomposer

Trophic level

Taiga or Coniferous forest

savanna

K-strategist

niche

Biotic potential

generalist

transpiration

Solar capital

Phosphorus

Ecosystem

Nitrogen Fixation

Natural capital

Per capita

Sustainability

Succession

Ecology

Community

Replacement Level Fertility

Demographic Transition

Food web

mutualism

Interspecific competition

Primary succession

Population density

Carbon cycle

denitrification

Carrying capacity

Surface fire

mutagen

Resource partitioning

Industrialized agriculture

pesticide

Sulfur cycle

assimilation

teratogen

Acute response

Exotic or invasive species

Desert

mutation

biomagnification

Keystone species

Species evenness

indicator species

parasitism

nitrates

Chronic response

commensalism

overnutrition

GMO

LD-50

mercury

malnutrition

dose

lead

fertility

emigration

Infant mortality

Stage 2

chaparral

Chesapeake Bay

eutrophic

Urban sprawl

AIDS

urbanization

toxicity

watershed

Food security

pest

desertification

Green Revolution

salinization

aquaculture

famine

Plantation agriculture

Tropical Rainforest

Integrated pest management

Boomerang effect

goiter

anemia

tolerance

Geographic isolation