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chemicals clay, 238, 238f diverted/utilized water, 420, 420f
elements listed by mass, 42t Clean Air Act, 194 coltan ore, 652–653, 659, 659f
hazards, 379, 384 of 1970, 476 command-and-control policy, 198–199
pesticides, 273 of 1990, 476, 480 communities, 78f, 98
chemistry, 26f, 28, 41 acid deposition and, 492 disturbances and response of, 108–109
water, 43, 43f cap-and-trade emissions trading system and, ecological, 98–111
chemosynthesis, 51 201 invasive species and, 110
Cheney, Dick, 186–187 clean coal technologies, 555 organisms and role in, 101–102
Chernobyl, Ukraine, 577–578, 577f Clean Water Act restoring altered, 110–111
health impacts, 580–581, 580f of 1970, 93, 194 shifts, 106
radioactive fallout, 44, 45f, 578f marine pollution and, 432 species interactions and, 94
Chesapeake Bay, 123, 136–137 122f, 123f, 126f, clear-cutting, 335–336, 335f, 336f succession, 106, 108–109
127f, 136f, 146f Cleopatra’s Needle, 492f zebra mussels’ impact on fish, 104–105, 104f
Chesapeake Bay Fisheries Ecosystem model, climate, 471, 502 community ecology, 78, 92–121
133 biomes, 112, 112f community-based conservation, 320
Chesapeake Bay Foundation, 146–147 geoengineering, 532 community-supported agriculture (CSA), 287.
chestnut blight, 107 greenhouse gases and, 480–481 See also agriculture
Chevy Volt, 28f Milankovitch cycles and, 505–506, 506f compaction, 55
Chicago, Illinois ocean absorption and, 506 competition, 94, 94t
forest preserves, 366f ocean currents and, 443–444 interspecific/intraspecific, 94
heat wave, 520 photochemical smog and, 483 resources, limited and, 94–95
Plan of Chicago, 361 soil formation and, 237 role changes, 95f
sprawl in, 357–358 solar output and, 506 competitive exclusion, 95
Chicago Climate Exchange, 530–531 tundra, 116 composting, 253, 629
child development, 396–397 climate change. See global climate change municipal solid waste, 629f, 634–635
Chile, 117 climate diagrams, 112 compounds, 43. See also volatile organic
minerals, 656f climate models, 508–509, 512–513, 512f, 513f compounds
China, 207f climate patterns, circulation systems and global, atoms and formation of, 43–44
age structure, 217f 473–474 inorganic, 46
air pollution, 481–482, 481f climatographs, 112 ionic, 44
desertification, 242 climax community, 106 matter composition and, 43–44
ecological footprint, 32f Clinton, Bill, organic, 46
environmental footprint, 231t Northwest Forest Plan, 334 Comprehensive Environmental Response
grazing, 250 roadless rule, 338 Compensation and Liability Act (CER-
Green Revolution, 265 clover, 244 CLA), 194
human population, 214f clumped distribution, 81, 81f computers, 165f
irrigation, 213 coal, 22, 33, 546 concentrated animal feeding operations
lead paint poisoning, 385 air pollution and, 482f (CAFOs). See feedlots
minerals, 656f clean coal technologies, 555 concentrated solar power (CSP), 607, 607f
one-child policy, 207–208, 217 electricity generation, 547f concession, 330
population, 214 formation, 544f condors, 315–316, 315f
population age structure, 217f mining, 560, 660f cone snails, 311f
population control, 207–208, 217, 224 nuclear power plants vs. coal-fired plants, conference presentations, 31
population growth, 208f, 218t 576t confined aquifers, 409
renewable energy technology, 530f as a rock, 57 Congo. See Democratic Republic of the Congo
Shanghai, 206f smog and, 483 Connecticut College, 677
temperate deciduous forest, 113 coastal ecosystems, 444–450 conservation
Three Gorges Dam, 422f estuaries, 448 agricultural, 234
tree planting, 247f intertidal ecosystems, 445, 448, 448f biodiversity, 87–89
chlorine, 42t kelp forests, 449 community-based, 320
chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), 487 mangrove forests, 448 electricity, 525
ozone destruction process, 487f salt marsh, 448 marine, 461–463
chlorophyll, 50 coastal systems of matter, 41
chronic exposure, 389 biome-like patterns, 112–113 routes to, 564–565
Churchill, Winston, 30–31 energy from waves, 619f soil, 243-226, 256
Cipriano, Frank, 318–319 cod fisheries, 438–439, 459f tillage, 249f
circum-Pacific belt, 57, 58f Coe College, 679 38th century, 156–157
CITES. See Convention on International Trade coevolution, 97 U.S. environmental policy encouraging,
in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna coexistence, species, 95 191–192
and Flora coffee, 91, 278f conservation biologists, 132
cities. See also livable cities cogeneration, 564 working at multiple levels, 312–313
climate change policies, 530 Cohen, Arianne, 386 conservation biology, 292–323
green buildings and sustainable, 366–368 Colburn, Theo, 396 biodiversity loss and, 312
innovation and, 370 cold front, 471, 472f conservation concession, 331
parklands, 365–366 Collapse (Jared Diamond), 23 conservation districts, 243
planning, 360–362 College of Saint Benedict, 678 conservation ethic, 156–157
transit options, 363–365 Colombia, 38, 606–607 Conservation Reserve Program, 256–257
Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, colony collapse disorder, 272 conservation tillage, 244
186 Colorado, wildfires in, 338 Constitution, U.S., 188–189
city planning, 360 Colorado River Consumer Assistance to Recycle and Save
I-4 classical economics, 161 agricultural irrigation and, 415 (CARS) Act, 565

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