ENV101 - Earth Systems Materials

Week 1 Week 2 Week 3 Week 4 Week 5 Week 6 Week 7 Week 8 Week 9 Week 10 Week 11 Week 12 Week 12 - Floods and geophysical events / ecosystems and biomes Readings There are no required readings from the text book for this week. However, because it's the only chapter that you haven't read in the textbook, you may like to read Chapter 17 of  the set textbook: Merali, Z. and Skinner, B.J. (2009) Visualizing Earth Science. John Wiley and Sons, New Jersey 582pp. ISBN 978-0-471-74705-5 Lecture notes: Lecture notes:  slides and  handouts Video recordings: part1  |  part2   Practical notes and data Practical notes: Prac12-Ecosystems and biomes (Word)  or Prac12-Ecosystems and biomes (PDF) Data files: data.zip  Note that you must unzip the data.zip file before you can use the files in ArcGIS Prac12-Ecosystems and biomes  (ArcMap map document) Note that this should be placed in your prac folder at the same level as your data folder (see this example)    Demonstration videos: part1  |  part2   Article introducing ecoregions: Olson, D. M., Dinerstein, E., Wikramanayake, E. D., Burgess, N. D., Powell, G. V. N., Underwood, E. C., D'Amico, J. A., Itoua, I., Strand, H. E., Morrison, J. C., Loucks, C. J., Allnutt, T. F., Ricketts, T. H., Kura, Y., Lamoreux, J. F., Wettengel, W. W., Hedao, P., Kassem, K. R. 2001. Terrestrial ecoregions of the world: a new map of life on Earth. Bioscience 51(11):933-938.  *Note that some files and the appearance of some software may have changed slightly to those presented in the practical notes and demonstration videos. If you cannot troubleshoot the problem yourself, please make a post to the Practical Exercises forum on the learnline Discussion Board.