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Contents

Geology: The Physical Basis for
PART O NE Environmental Science 51
The Science Behind the Story:
Have We Brought On a New Geologic Epoch? 56
Geologic and Natural Hazards 57

3 Evolution, Biodiversity,
and Population Ecology 65

CENTRAL CASE STUDY
Saving Hawaii’s Native
Foundations of Forest Birds 66
Environmental Science

Evolution: The Source of Earth’s Biodiversity 67
The Science Behind the Story:
Hawaii: Species Factory
1 Science and Sustainability: and Lab of Evolution 74
An Introduction to Levels of Ecological Organization 78
Environmental Science 20 Population Ecology 79

Our Island, Earth 21 The Science Behind the Story: Monitoring 82
Bird Populations at Hakalau Forest
The Nature of Environmental Science 23 Conserving Biodiversity 87
The Science Behind the Story:
What Are the Lessons of Easter Island? 24
The Nature of Science 27 4 Species Interactions
Sustainability and Our Future 32 and Community Ecology 92

CENTRAL CASE STUDY
2 Earth’s Physical Systems: Black and White, and Spread
Matter, Energy, All Over: Zebra Mussels 93
Invade the Great Lakes
and Geology 39

CENTRAL CASE STUDY Species Interactions 94
The Tohoku Earthquake: Has Ecological Communities 98
It Shaken the World’s Trust The Science Behind the Story:
in Nuclear Power? 40 Determining Zebra Mussels’ Impacts
on Fish Communities 104
Matter, Chemistry, and the Environment 41 The Science Behind the Story:
The Science Behind the Story: Chronicling Ecological Recovery CONTENT S
Tracking Fukushima’s Nuclear Legacy 44 at Mount St. Helens 108
Energy: An Introduction 47 Earth’s Biomes 111

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