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Human health and disease associated with env factors including biological agents and toxins
Pollution produces an unclean,impure,dirty state; Contamination means making something
unfit through the introduction of undesirable materials Toxic Materials are poisonous to
people and other living things, Synergism is the combined effect of diff substances having a
greater affect than the sum of the effects of the individual substances. PPM and PPB are
common ways of measuring pollution, air pollution is of micrograms/cubic meter of air
Organic Compounds are produced by living organisms or synthetically by people, some
degrade in the env fast others are more likely to undergo biomagnifcation and are
exteremely toxic even at low levels, ex of org cpds are pesticides, dioxin, PCBs, HAAs
Disturbed envs produce a threat but human spreading of diesaes is even more serious
The effect of a chemical or toxin is dependent on the dose, tolerence of a person, and the
acute/chronic effects that is has on a person. Risk Assesement ids the hazard, exposure, and
the possibel results. Feminization of Frogs via HAAs are an early warning to us about our
effects on nature. To reduce env hazards we need to pay more for the goods that are used
BioEvo: change in inerited charectaristics of a pop from gen to gen, resp for development
Mutation, Natural Selection, Migration, and Genetic Drift
BiologicalDiversity= Genetic Diversity, Habitat Diversity, Species Diversity (the total
number of genetic charecterists). (the diversity of habitats in a given unity area)
Ecological Restoration is the process of helping degraded ecosystems recover and become
more self sustaining and therefore pass through their natural range of conditions
Goals of Ecological Restoration: help transform degraded ecosystems into sustainable
ecosysstems and to develop new relationships between natural and human-mod envs
Adaptive Management: applies science to restoration process, is necceary for sucess
Restoration is a combination of human activitis and natural processes, also a soc activity
Disturbance, Change, and Variation in the env are natural and eclogical systems and species
have evolved to respond to these changes
Ecosystem Restoration and human population have to increase at a cohabitating rate
Ecosystem degradation is a global issue and has been happening since civilizations
Ecosystem restoration is an important way to improve city life
Sucession is normal and there is not single natural state of conditions in an ecosystem, the
conditions tha we promote relfect on our values as a society