How and why do ecologists use GIS software?

What will be an ideal response?


GIS software is used by landscape ecologists to analyze and visualize how geographic elements of a landscape are arrayed spatially. The elements can be arranged as layers to form a composite map, useful for mapping niches of various species and establishing management strategies for any landscape, natural or urban.

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Preservation of organic matter in sedimentary rocks is most successful in the absence of:

a. carbon dioxide b. oxygen c. hydrogen sulfide d. nitrogen

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Extinction is ________

A) the loss of communities from the planet B) always caused by human disturbance C) proceeding more slowly now than at any other time D) the disappearance of a species from Earth E) something that occurs only rarely

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Water can dissolve so many substances that it has been called the ________________

Fill in the blank(s) with correct word

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A condition where the central and eastern tropical Pacific Ocean turns cooler than normal is called?

a. ?El Niño. b. ?La Niña. c. ?the Southern Oscillation. d. ?the Ekman Spiral. e. upwelling.?

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