The document discusses the rebound of ecosystems after catastrophe using Mount St. Helens as an example. It then discusses topics such as wildfire research, why water is important, gold mining, loss of biodiversity, desertification, and the carbon market as they relate to ecosystem degradation.

3. Mt. St. Helens
May 18, 1980
How does an ecosystem rebound from
catastrophe?
Rebirth of a Blast Zone:
http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2010/05/
mount-st-helens/blast-zone-animation
PBS, NOVA (May 3, 2010)
http://video.pbs.org/video/1456691252

6. Dynamic Equilibrium of an Ecosystem: The property of continual
adjustment to change, maintaining an overall balance. Ecosystems
respond to changing conditions in a way to preserve an overall pattern
of plant, animal, and microbial life.

11. Wildfire Research:
http://video.nationalgeographic.com/video/player/
environment/environment-natural-disasters/landslides-
and-more/wildfire-research.html

12. Ecosystem Degradation

14. Why Care about Water?
http://video.nationalgeographic.com/video/player/
environment/habitats-environment/freshwater/env-
freshwater-whycare.html

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23. Rosia Montana, Romania
Open pit mine
gold production - 2006
Gold is >$1,000 / ounce
Gold Mining in Europe
(Video Segment 2 & 4)
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/wideangle/lessons/
gold-futures/video-segment-2/4691/

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30. Ecosystem Degradation

34. Ecosystem Degradation

36. NOVA, Preserving Life on Earth, E. O. Wilson, Loss of Biodiversity:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/eowilson/program.html

40. Ecosystem Degradation

41. Ecosystem Desertification – land degradation in arid, semi-arid, and dry subhumid
regions resulting from human impact (destruction of deserts, savannas, grasslands,
shrublands, woodlands).

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47. Ecosystem Degradation

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50. Burning Season and the Carbon Market:
http://video.pbs.org/video/1157019251/

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