Table of Contents
Reading Assignments
Deterministic vs. Extrinsic Stochastic Threats
Stochastic Threats and Population Size
“Quiz”
The aspen sunflower
Environmental Variation
Good years . . .
Bad years
Snowpack and Frost Damage
How might climate change affect this sunflower?
PPT Slide
PPT Slide
Causes of Extinction (Genetic Swamping)
What IS Causing Extinction?
Topics: Historical Extinctions
“Pseudo-extinction”
Sideling Hill, MD
Stratigraphic Geology (study of layered rock)
PPT Slide
Characteristics of a ME
Proposed Agents of Mass Extinctions
Climate Change
Marine Regression
Marine Regression
Climate Change Evidence
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