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consumers, 98–99 cost-benefit analysis, 164 deciduous trees, 113. See also temperate
keystone species, 101 costs, 161–162 deciduous forest
sustainability, 685 external, 164, 183, 561 decomposers, 99–100, 99f
consumption, 539 internal, 164 Deepwater Horizon oil spill, 454-437, 454f,
animal products, 267 Cotterill, Alayne, 320f 556–559, 556f, 557f, 558f, 559f
energy, 539–540, 573f courts, environmental policy conflicts Gulf of Mexico and, 556–559
environmental impact, 32–33 addressing, 198. See also Supreme Court, wetlands and, 408
fossil fuel, 539, 539f U.S. deep-well injection, 645, 645f
human population growth and, 32–33 covalent bonds, 43 deer, 98–99
mineral, 665 cover crops, 233–234 population growth, 101–102
natural resource, 22–23, 32–33 Crater Lake National Park, 341 deforestation, 329–332
pyramid pattern, 100 Cretaceous period, 77, Appendix E Costa Rica payment program, 162–163, 162f,
sustainability and, 32–33, 368–369 Cretaceous-Tertiary (K-T) mass extinction, 77 163f
U.S., 685f criteria pollutants, 478, 479f Easter Island, 24–25
waste and, 629–630 crocodiles, 72f tropical rainforest, 330–331, 330f, 331f
consumptive use, 415 crop diversity, 270–271 del Moral, Roger, 109
contaminated sites, cleanup of, 645–647 crop rotation, 244, 245f Delucchi, Mark, 605
continental collision, 54 crop(s) demand, 161–162
continental shelves, 440 bioenergy, 586 Democratic Republic of the Congo
contingent valuation, 169 GM, 262–263 coltan ore mining, 652–653
contour farming, 244, 245f selective breeding, 70f immigration, 218, 218f
contraception, 221, 227 crude oil, 543 minerals, 656f
controlled burns, 338–339. See also prescribed crust, 52, 52f, 53f demographers, 84
burning Crutzen, Paul, 488–489, 488f demographic change, 227
controlled experiments, 29 crypsis, 96f demographic fatigue, 227
controls, 29 Cuba demographic transition, 219, 220f
invasive species, 110 minerals, 656f demography, 214–220
convective circulation, 470–471, 471f, 473f population control policy, 224 population age structure, 215–216
Convention on Biological Diversity, 315 cultural hazards, 379 population density/distribution, 214–215
Convention on International Trade in cultural value, 169f population size, 214
Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and culture, 153 sex ratios, 216–218
Flora (CITES), 315, 316 environment and, 152–153 The Demon Haunted World: Science as a Candle
conventional law, 196 Current Biology, 74, 381 in the Dark (Sagan), 27
conventions, 196 currents, 442, 442f, 618–619 Denison University, 677
convergent evolution, 69, 69f customary law, 196 denitrification, 144
convergent plate boundaries, 53, 53f Cuyahoga River, Ohio, 192, 193f denitrifying bacteria, 144
Copenhagen climate conference, 490f, 529f cypress swamps, 413–414 Denmark, 613f, 614
Copernicus, Nicolaus, 31 density-dependent factors, 86
copper mine, 658f density-independent factors, 86
coral reefs, 449 D deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA), 47
algae and, 106 Dale, Bruce, 591 genetic variation, 68
biodiversity, 449–450 Dale, Virginia, 108–109, 108f mutations, 71
climate change and, 446–447, 519 Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas, 357 traits and, 68
mutualism, 98 Daly, Herman, 168 Department of Environmental Conservation
coral(s), 446f dams, 421–422, 421f, 593f (New York), 104
bleaching, 449f hydroelectric power, 592–593 dependent variables, 29
Corbett, Tom, 189 irrigation, 415 deposition, 240
Corbin, Grant, 123 Dartmouth College, 681 desalination, 423, 424f
core, 52, 52f Darwin, Australia, 115f descriptive science, 27
Coriolis effect, 473 Darwin, Charles, 31, 68, 70, 95 desert, 115–116, 116f
corn ethanol, 266, 587–588 Darwin’s theory of evolution by natural selec- altitude and, 118f
Cornucopians, 165–167 tion, 31, 70 desert grassland, 118f
corporate average fuel efficiency (CAFE) data, 29 desertification, 241–242, 242f
standards, 565 gathering, 29f detritivores, 99, 99f
corporations DDT. See dichloro-diphenyl-trichloroethane Detroit, 357, 358
campaign contributions, 186 De Anza College, California, 671–673, 671f, developed nations
divestment, 682–683, 682f 673f birth rates, 225f
GM foods, 283 dead zone(s) indoor air pollution, 494
multinational, 197 Gulf of Mexico, 427, 428–429 per-person energy use, 541f
sustainability, 173–174 Mississippi River, 254 developing nations
correlation, 30 number of known, 131f biomass sources in, 585, 585f
corridors, 347 Deal Island, 123–124 birth rates, 225f
cost curves, 161f “The Death of Environmentalism” (Shellenberger energy consumption and, 573f
Costa Rica, 151f and Nordhaus), 195 forests and, 330–331
bioprospecting in, 310 death rates, 84, 218 indoor air pollution in, 493–494, 494f
deforestation, 152f crude, 84 development
differing interactions with landscape, falling, 220 economic, 165 INDEX
153f industrialization, 220, 220f ethic, 157
ecosystem services, 151–152 pollution intensity and, 485f sustainable, 174-157, 683
payments for forest services, 162–163 death’s head hawk moth (Acherontia atropos), zoning and, 360–361
peace parks, 345 97f Devine, Scott, 248 I-5

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