Slide 1Earthworms as a Bioindicator of Mercury Pollution in an Artisanal Gold Mining Community: Cachoeira do Piriá, Brazil Jennifer J. Hinton B.A.Sc. Geological Engineering…

Slide 1Properties of Populations Age structure Density Fertility Slide 2 What is a population? A group of organisms of the same species that occupy a well defined geographic…

Slide 1The Amazon Rainforest Slide 2 Background: A moist broadleaf forest (in the Amazon Basin of South America) Total area of Amazon Basin : 7 million square km² ( the…

Slide 1 Chapter 8 Opener Farmers and nursery workers plant tree seedlings on degraded land in Costa Rica Slide 2 Figure 8.1 For a range of land uses in West Africa, the average…

Slide 1 CBERS: the Brazilian Experience Gilberto Camara Director for Earth Observation INPE Workshop – 3 Years of CBERS, Beijing, October 2002 Slide 2 2 Overview CBERS…