Ecosystem Reports Samples For Students

Executive Summary

The current report presents a number of strategic management strategies to the Australian federal government. In general, the report categorizes different ecosystem services and function provided by Murray-Darling basin into four major categories-production, habitat, information and regulating. Alongside this, the report indicates that in their efforts to provide ecosystem services and functions, industry stakeholders fail to allocate resources efficiently, more importantly, the report indicates that market failures results from nature of the market and the nature of goods and services produced and the nature of exchange used.
The market-based instruments (MBIs) refer to several regulations that government organizations use ...

Biodiversity and sustainability, two of the major factors to determine if an ecosystem is habitable and sufficient for any life form, may it be fauna, fawn or human kind. However, there are only a few sites left around the globe which can be considered sustainable and contains biodiversity as climate change continues to affect the planet. Some areas have become barren, while a few remained arable but in the risk of being converted into commercial lands for homes or businesses. In the United States, the problem of pollution not only affected its once diverse ecosystem, which is considered the home of ...

Business Management scenarios have undergone a vast change within the last decades. Roles and Expectations in Corporate Management have been redefined following changes in perspectives of policy makers about the contribution of business enterprises towards a more sustainable development. Business Ecosystems comprising of all stakeholders who are dependent on each other look upon the manager as a leader who must incorporate these changes into the new management process instead of confining himself to the old stereotyped functions of planning, monitoring and controlling. This paper explores the role of the manager in the evolving business environment and the new responsibilities ...

Introduction

Everglades evolved from overflow from Lake Okeechobee after thousands of years of intense torrential rainfall. From lakes shores of Florida bay and Gulf Mexico, this vast marsh extends southwestwards. Stephanie Moller. (2008). At the southern tip of Florida Peninsula, the marsh begins and continues to extend northwards towards Lake Okeechobee, and it lies in a shallow limestone basin. Several streams like Miami drain the area without any river flowing into the basin.
The Everglades are an excellent wetland located at the margins of the tropics. This magnificent ecosystem provides shelter to a variety of animals, birds and fish. This unique ...

Introduction

The Murray-Darling is the longest river system in Australia, covering an area of one million square kilometers and ranked fifteenth in the world in terms of the lengths. The Murray- Darling river system has long played an important role in the Australian agricultural sector as well as in providing various ecosystem services and supporting biodiversity for a vast array of plants and animals. Changes in land use, water extractions and river management in the Murray-Darling Basin have increased pressure on the Basin's water resources, leading to significant concern over water quality and the status of ecosystem health. The regulation of ...

The journal article was written to provide an overview of physical and chemical processes affecting changes in coral reef ecosystem. These changes are influenced by anthropogenic greenhouse gas emission (Hoegh-Guldberg, Mumby and Hooten 1737) that triggers physical processes involving laws of thermodynamics. The journal article also shows how the basic principle and theory of thermodynamics occur at global scale over a long period of time. Consequently, the physical processes influence the chemical processes that eventually lead to further changes in ocean ecosystem.
The article introduces reader to the existing phenomena of warming and acidifying of the seas (Hoegh-Guldberg, Mumby ...

Like many other United States National Parks, Badlands is unique unto itself with physical attributes that when they are seen one knows it is Badlands National Park. Located in an area rich with history, the Badlands was created and founded as a national monument in 1939 by President Roosevelt before officially becoming a national park in 1978 (Steiner, 1993). The landscape of buttes, ravines, and hills found in the midst of the prairie of Southwestern South Dakota influenced the Lakota Sioux to call the area, ‘mako sica’ or ‘badlands’ (“South Dakota Legends,” 2003). The Sioux Pine Ridge reservation lies ...

- Executive Summary
This paper explores into the annals of citizen science in relation with the use of tourists in community environmental monitoring in order to enhance the creation of sustainable destinations. The gist of the paper involves the exploration of a central theme of how tourists can be used as citizen scientists in community environmental monitoring. In advancing the theme, the paper analyses six citizen science projects that predominantly use tourists to collect data for analysis. The main project analyzed in the paper is the Fluker Post Research Project in Melbourne Australia. To back the analysis of the ...

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Introduction
Adaptation refers to a general process used by people, animals, plants, and the biological organisms living in the atmosphere. As change in nature is a constant process, one must learn to adapt to the change of the environment in order for survival. Adaptation to change is essential to the evolution of life. The evolution is an ever-going process that brings changes within the environment. From the moment we are conceived and take birth in this world, we are constantly adapting to certain forms of evolution (birth, infancy, childhood, adolescence, young adulthood, and middle aged adulthood) and advancing through different ...

The North American Great Plains is home to diverse species of flora and fauna. It is well-known for its prairies, which are large areas of land that are dominated by grass, and could be broadly categorized into three: shortgrass, tallgrass, or mixed (Fick 189). This paper will focus on two species, one animal and one plant, that are found within the North American prairies—the black-tailed prairie dog and the stinging nettle plant.
The black-tailed prairie dog (Cynomys ludovicianus) is one of five species of prairie dogs that exist in North America, and was the most common and ...

The chapter “Urban Facts and Fallacies” by Thomas Sowell is definitely an interesting read compelling reader to reflect on every fact stated by the author. The Housing section of chapter was shocking and eye-opening and starts from providing truth of the biggest “fallacy” as called by author that government intervention is required in the housing market to control the upper limit of price of houses. The reading is directed to break this fallacy to make readers realize that due to government intervention, the prices have actually skyrocketed. It is a well known fact that prices of houses has ...

Abstract

The objective of this research paper is to discuss background of oil well fire occurred in Kuwait and how the fire causes serious impacts on the environment. During the Gulf War around 725 Kuwait’s oil wells were burned by the Iraq. The fire occurred due to burning of oil wells not only impacted the environment of the Kuwait but global environment in very negative manner. Fire increased pollution level significantly high and people started witnessing black rain. Days were turned into the dark nights due to smoke. The balance of ecological system was completely lost due to significant ...

Internship Experience

Internship Experience
Erie Times is newspaper firm based in Pennsylvania and has a daily circulation of 50,000 newspapers. The newspaper focus is Erie County while it also focuses on Ohio and New York. The firm started operations in 1988 headed by Mead family. Previously, the Time Publishing Company had two newspapers that include Erie Dispatch Herald and Erie Morning News. The two newspapers merged in 2000 and currently it is Erie Times-News. The merger has led to change in leadership away from the Mead family. The receiver received accolades as the “Newspaper of the Year” in 2003” and a ...

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Design an Arthropod
For a certain region to be considered a biodiversity hotspot, it must have endemic vascular plants that are not easily seen in other parts of the Earth. A biological hotspot should also have natural vegetation.
Some of the risks that biological hotspots are confronted with include but not limited to the following: population pressures, loss of habitat, and global warming. Human beings bring about massive effect that drives all other dangers to coral reefs. Overfishing, oil spills, coral harvesting, agriculture, logging, coastal development, all of these contribute to the destruction of habitat. In addition, ...

- Introduction
- Aim
This study aims at establishing two different water sources and developing critical comparisons between these two water systems and their use in the Arabian Gulf.
- Information specific to region ( water situation )- evidence.
The Gulf region is a dryland which extends from Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain, Oman to the mountains of Aimen. The arid area symbolically stretches through the vast area and the arid belt includes high and low mountainous regions. The lack of vegetation and water resources in the Gulf encapsulates dry sub-humid areas. The characteristic features of the massive ...

Introduction.

As mans impact on this pale blue dot with its complex and fragile natural cycles and ecosystems becomes increasingly more evident and concerning, it is up to the people to take initiative and pride themselves on minimising and hopefully one day in the far future reverse the harm we have caused to our one and only planet. It is due to our ignorance, greed and trust in the powers that be that have brought the climate to where it is today. So as conditions worsen we must hold governments accountable and implement strategies that protect natural systems whilst supporting ...

- Destination Description
Yellowstone National Park is located in the state of Wyoming in the United States. However, the national park extends into Idaho and Montana. More precisely, the park is located on coordinates 44°36′North of the equator and 110°30′ West of the Prime meridian. The park was established on the 1st of March in 1872 through an Act of Parliament signed by the then president. Yellowstone National Park extends in five counties of the Wyoming, Montana and Idaho states. The population of the Park County in Wyoming according to the 2010 census was 28, ...

Gross domestic product (GDP) is the basic social accounting measure of the total output of goods and services. In other words, it gives the monetary value of total output in of a country on an annual basis. On the other hand, economic welfare entails the level of financial satisfaction and prosperity that is realized by individuals in an economic system. Therefore, GDP is used to measure the economic welfare of a country.
I concur with Jackson (2009) that the “society clings to a myth by which it lives”. Economic growth in this case is considered as a myth of a society. Society here ...

Purpose

The purpose of this study is to investigate the substantial effect that invasive species such as the dreissenid mussel, popularly known as quagga and zebra mussel have on the ecosystem of freshwater water Lake called Great Lakes with the potential impacts and how it can alter their ecosystem.

Introduction

Quagga and zebra mussels started thriving Great Lakes of North America in the mid-1980s being introduced into the lake by ballast ship. They are a minute bivalve and indigenous to the Caspian Sea section. After a short while, the population exploded invading the water bodies including its drainage systems and other ...

Introduction

It is imperative to note that productivity growth is an aspect that is often used by economists to gauge the performance of an economy. In evaluating the living standards of a country in the long-term, the efficiency with which capital and labor are combined has a significant role to play. However, it is worth noting that productivity alone cannot be relied on to measure the performance of an economy as it is inefficient. The concept has made most analysts to focus on other features such as labor productivity, a figure that is often arrived at by dividing the total ...

The Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill occurred in the location of Gulf of Mexico on April 20th of 2010 due to an explosion which took place on the Deep Water Horizon oil rig. Transocean, the operator and owner of the oil rig, is an offshore-oil-drilling company. However, it had been leased by BP Oil Company. A natural gas caused the blasting which caused a wellhead blowout. The blowout resulted in the worst marine oil spill in the history. Despite attempts to put a temporary seal to prevent the further oil spill, the equipment malfunctioned. The oil the contamination extended spill ...

Space/ Scale/ Territory

Millennium Park is a 24.5-acre park that has several venues for performance, art, architecture, sculpture, and landscape architecture. It is located centrally in Chicago’s central business district and the lakefront. The Millennium Park emerged from a dilapidated ground-level parking space and rail yard into perhaps what may be regarded as the world’s biggest “green roof,” spanning two multi-level parking spaces with a total of over 4,000 cars and one commuter rail line. In Millennium Park, space is created in various ways. For example, there is the illusion of space created through structures and activities that allow ...

The climate of Canada is governed by a number of elements of climate which lead to a regional variety of weather patterns in the country. These weather patterns are pertinent in determining the type of climate which each particular region experiences. Climate has many impacts on a country’s ecosystem, sociology and economy, and is therefore a key component in the overall health of any economy. Disruptions to climate can have enduring outcomes for Canada and its people. This paper attempts to discuss the current climactic patterns which occur in Canada, and outlines some ways in which climate change ...

Letter of Transmittal

Richard Albert Sylvester
Management Consultant
Lamplighters Corporation
Ottawa K I P 5B5
Phone: 613-563-1509
www.lamplightres.ca
The Right Honorable Justin P.J. Trudeau

Office of the Prime Minister

80 Wellington Street

Ottawa, ON K1A 0A2

RE: Project Suitability Report on the Proposed Trans Mountain Expansion Pipeline Project
Dear Right Honorable Prime Minister,
It is with great pleasure and honor that I submit this report on the suitability of the proposed Trans Mountain Expansion pipeline project.
The Trans Mountain Expansion pipeline project proposal by Kinder Morgan aims at increasing the current capacity of the existing Trans Mountain oil pipeline. Currently, the existing infrastructure has a capacity of 300,000 barrels per ...

Reducing the population growth rate is possible. The World Watch Institute highlighted that with universal access to safe and effective contraceptives for both sexes, the pregnancies would reduce significantly, and consequently the population. Besides, expansion access of secondary education would also lead to population decrease because of delayed marriage and increased knowledge on the use of contraceptives. Moreover, offering age-appropriate sex education could help reduce the rate of population growth because the children would adopt birth controls at early stages or make informed choices. It follows that adopting methods of reducing the population would lead to a decrease in ...

NATIONAL PARKS

National Parks
Introduction
Acadia National Park
The Acadia National Park is federal parkland located in New England, United States. This national park is made up of mountains, lakes, woodlands, ocean shoreline and so forth. It also includes a small island located to the southwest of Mount Desert Island, and parts of Baker Island, also nearby. This makes up much of the Isle au Haut. A part of the Schoodic Peninsula situated on the mainland of Maine is also included in this park. The national park is the first to be established in the East of the Mississippi River and ...

Abstract

Human activities have a significant influence on marine life. Pollutants from landfills, dumps, mines, farms, etc. can pollute the ocean and later through the food chain cause harm to all land animals and humans as well. Protein is a very important structural component of an organism. Using protein for energy is an inefficient form of metabolism and in the long run detrimental to the organism. A significant low level of protein content was noticed in Mytilus californianus or (mussels) obtained from the polluted environment when compared to the tissue of Mytilus californianus obtained from pristine environment. Organism that are ...

Introduction – Role as change agent & OD specialist:

This is the New Zealand’s largest airline operating in more than 15 international and about 27 domestic destinations. It has been included in the world’s largest 20 airlines after the acquisition of Ansett Australia group. It carries almost 12 million travelers and millions of cargoes through 2 laces flights per year and has more flights than any other airlines in New Zealand, Australia and other pacific regions. It was started in 1940 with the name of Tasman Empire Airways limited which provided service across Tasman Sea with the flying boats. In 1953, it was owned by Governments ...

Report: To the University Management Council

The sustainable development initiative is an approach on various factors that concerns the well-being of the community in a sustainability perspective. The factors in question include, research, economic development, environmental conservation and education. (Freedman & Jaggi, 2010). The environmental conservation aspect is usually done and encouraged by various players in the society including government and nongovernmental organizations. The major aim of conservation is to avert serious implications that are brought about by imbalances in the ecosystem (Kahraman & Baig, 2010). In connection to this and as a wakeup call, I hereby write to your esteemed office to find it worthy your consideration to ...

Executive Summary

Samsung is the largest company in the world in the Electronics segment. It has a hugely diversified product portfolio. However, the smartphone and mobile division accounts for the maximum profit and revenue of the company. It traditionally has dominated the Asian and East-Asian market with low cost to high cost range of mobile products. However, in recent times, Samsung is witnessing an increased difficulty in most of the markets. In China, it is losing market share to the domestic players like Xiaomi. In India, it is losing market share to Micromax and in Indonesia, to Mito.

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Assignment Question
Report Assessing the Feasibility of different Techniques for providing Fresh Water to Arid Regions
1.0 Introduction
The challenge of sustainable water supply and management in arid areas is magnified by the climatic condition of these regions. The areas often experience a period of six rainless months every year. The areas also experience low and unpredictable annual precipitation of around 100 to 500mm per year as well as extreme potential evaporation (Bunn et al. 2006, p.174). The impact of climate change primarily affects the amount of fresh water supply in arid regions. There is a substantial decrease ...

Considering the effects of cover crop and intercropping on garden settings

1. Introduction
1.1 Background
Sustainable agricultural production systems, otherwise known as agroecosystems, employ a variety of techniques to maintain environmental quality. Cover crops are one strategy used by growers to preserve and enhance soil resources because of their impacts on soil-nutrient dynamics (such as nitrogen and carbon fixation)and microbiological functions (Steenworth and Belina, 2008). Cover crops such as cereal grass, hairy vetch, and oilseed radish, manage problems in an agroecosystem such as soil quality, erosion and fertility, water quality, pests and weeds because they tend to be less resource intensive than other crops and instead contribute to ...

The control of Natural Resource Management in Australia is a critical concern and hence the responsibility of governments, communal groups and regional bodies to support projects and programs delivery that consequently inform policy makers on natural resources issues. (Brueckner, Durey, Mayes & Pforr 2014).
Water pollution is a significant natural resource management issue in Australia that is caused by different anthropogenic, as well as natural factors (Pigram 2007). The northern Jarrah Forests of Western Australia have been a source of water to the Perth metropolitan Region, however, the water supply system is under a threat of pollution from Industrial activities taking place within ...

Abstract

This report seeks to develop a comprehensive, effective, and actionable sustainability policy for Burj Al Arab Hotel found in Dubai as one of the emirates that make up United Arabs Emirates. In an attempt to understand the performance of the hotel in regard to sustainability, the report has evaluated the existing literature to identify the existing criticism that should be considered in light of developing the policy. In essence, the mission statement has been evaluated in the report with the aim of developing the guiding principles when developing the policy bearing in mind that the plan should be consistent with ...

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Figure 2 Schematic representation of pricing procedure in New Zealand 10

Implications of Transmission Lines and Grid Network of New Zealand

Abstract
This report aims to evaluate implications of transmission line and existing mechanism of transmission distribution network in New Zealand. There are various theoretical and real life implications posed by transmission lines including environmental and health issues, security system, problems associated with voltage and so forth. Quality material and mechanized system can minimize these implications. Un-organized transmission lines effects ecosystems that are essential for sustainable atmosphere and environment. Moreover , transmission lines arrangement within the ground leads to other issues ...

Lab Report:

Abstract
The tidal cycle of natural water bodies present challenges for sampling and interpreting physical, chemical and biological data. The Rainbow Channel at Morton Bay was the location for a field work project on sampling characteristics about the biota and about water quality parameters. Rainbow Channel experiences ocean flushing dependent on daily, monthly, seasonal, and annual at regular natural time intervals. Both daytime and night time sampling took place to better understand 24 hourly and daily cycles of nutrient concentrations, salinity, temperature, fluorescence and currents. Primary productivity takes place at different three different depths. The rate of productivity depends ...

Analysis of Water Quality from the Rivers Colne, Holme and Calder Flowing through Huddersfield/Mirfield

Analysis of Water Quality from the Rivers Colne, Holme and Calder Flowing through Huddersfield/Mirfield

Introduction

It is a truism that water is a valuable resource. Rivers are among the major suppliers of freshwater resources for humans and other terrestrial organisms. Thus, without rivers humans could not have survived. The importance of river systems has been elucidated even during the rise of the Egyptian Civilization. The Nile River for instance has provided humans with food, drink, fertile soil and even a site for settlement (Hassan and Al Rasheedy, 2007). The ecosystem services that the river provide to people since time immemorial include water supply ...

1.0 PURPOSE
In the City of Flagstaff, there exists the Cheshire Pond and the Francis Short Pond. The Francis Short Pond is located south of the Cheshire Pond and is constantly being supplied with reclaimed water to maintain the water level while in the Cheshire has a constant supply of rainfall, snowmelt and is constantly being supplied by water from the Rio Del Flag. What raise many issues in the Francis Short Pond are the potential effects of the reclaimed water on the ecosystem around Francis Short Pond. Thus, to establish the differences between reclaimed water and as a source ...

Introduction

Texaco, an oil company of American origin was founded in Beaumont, Texas. The flagship product of the company is its fuel, known as “Texaco with Techron”. The company also owns another brand of motor oil, Havoline. The company has used technology in order to expand its business empire. The company has been in the business of oil exploration and extraction in various regions of the world. As such, the company has used different technologies in order to pump oil from deep seated sources in the earths crust.
The use of such technology causes environmental degradation to a great extent. ...

Abstract

In an ecosystem, the existence of any species of animals or plants solely depends on the capability to adapt to its environment. This is true because, those species which are poorly adapted become extinct. For example, trees that could not adapt to harsh conditions of the desert were eliminated and those species that were well adapted were spared. This is basically what is called natural selection (Jeff et al 9). Similarly, those animal species that could not adapt to any given environmental conditions of an ecosystem were easily eliminated out of existence.
Human being, on the other hand, ...

The internet is evidently the most indispensable activity for the generation. We use it to connect with friend, conduct shopping, banking, blogging, seeking medical attention among other. It is used for almost everything. In order to conduct these daily activities effectively, there is a need to develop a way to prove that you are whom you say you are online. Cyber crime has gone a notch higher. Individuals and businesses have suffered losses amounting to billions of dollars yearly. Approximately 12 million Americans have been affected by identity of some kind in t6he past two years. According to the Federal Bureau of ...

Professional Engineering Development

Abstract

New Zealand was inhabited by indigenous people before the European sailors, fishermen and sailors started coming to the waters off its coast. The Māoiri culture and the European culture were in conflict from the beginning due to their different understandings of the purpose of earth’s resources. The Waikato River system is important to the Māoiri because of its ancient spiritual meanings as well as its modern practical uses; it is also important to the New Zealand European descendants for its modern uses. The Waikato River has an infrastructure of dams that provide hydroelectric power. A ...

Geographical Perspectives of Brisbane 2026

Introduction

In many western countries, as well as in Australia, city planners consider urban consolidation so as to achieve a compact urban form as a good strategy to manage urban growth as well as to contain urban sprawl (Freeman, 2001). Freeman further explains that such compact urban centers are beneficial in terms of efficient land use, reduced automobile reliance and promotes social interaction among the residents. The Brisbane city council as well as many other city councils has realized proper management of urban centers will contribute positively in creating sustainable cities.
A report by the South East Queensland Region Plan ( ...