PDS APES 8th Period 2009-10

Alright yall, this could not be a more perfect current events issue for what we are talking about.  Its got algal blooms, cultural eutrophication, overfishing, food webs, dead zones, D.O., and government intervention of course!  Its pretty much exactly what we are talking about but a real world example.  Crazy picture too. http://reefbuilders.com/2010/03/08/algae-blooms-threaten-choke-baltic-sea/

9/21/2009: Today in APES we discussed the concept of an Ecosystem and how it applies in Environmental Science.  First we defined an ecosystem as: The community of organisms and their interactions as well as their interactions with the non-living environment. We then discussed how an ecosystem is broken up into two basic parts: biotic and [...]