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LT.PO For one of the cities below research the various ecosystems of the area. What is one of the ecosystems that supports a commercial commodity or ecosystem service (e.g.; food source, clean water, timber, metals/minerals, pollination of crops) for the city? Santorini, Greece Austin, TX USA Reykjavík, Iceland Amsterdam, Netherlands Panama City, Panama Lisbon, Portugal Brisbane, Australia Hong Kong, China St. Petersburg, Russia ommodity/service for future You are a resource manager charged to secure that c production. Within that ecosystem, design an experiment (specifically relaying a question & your hypothesis, then the necessary experimental data to collect, & impact/application - do not need detailed methods) that would test or incorporate one of the following theories as it can apply to your conservation task: Optimal foraging Intermediate disturbance Island biogeography/meta-populationExplanation / Answer
Panama owns both Atlantic and Pacific costal marine regions. It is covered in tropical forests and wetlands. Some of the ecological regions found in this area are -
* Gulf of Panama mangroves - it is also knows as pearl island, having an area of 930 square miles. Extreme dry season is found in January to April while extreme wet season is found in may to December. This area is utilized for oil spills and utilization of mangroves. Mangroves are very important part of the ecosystem as they are responsible for proving shelter and nutrients to the residing birds in this area. It is estimated to have more 20 species of birds are found in this area.
* Eastern Panamanian montane forests - it is the home 24 species of fauna and experienced an rainfall of 2,500-5,000 millimeters. Eastern Panamanian Montana forests has about 800 vertebrate species with a large number of birds. The changed in climatic variations a it's location between North and South America makes it area with rich biodiversity.
Total of 963 woody plants species are found in this area, annual rain in this canal is 1700mm, during dry season near Pacific entrance of this canal. 54% of the land area of the Panama Canal is forest watershed and 43% pasture. The forest is in two large blocks one is East of Lake Alajuela in charges national park and one along the canal.
Panama has a large number of mammal and bird fauna, these sites have jaguar, puna, white lipped pecaary, Central American spider monkey, Bush dog. A large Average of burgess are found at the canal corridor thus includes Eagles, and four species of macaw.
About 50-60% the species in small fragments are birds and they utilize second growth habitat
86 species of anurans are found in the Panama Canal watershed large of them live in forest 60% of species are found in both low and high elevation, 17% are found in lowlands while 22% to uplands. Few species of frogs are - Colosthethus flotation, and Bufo typhonius.
The number of frogs are fluctuated over 23 years.
The Panama Canal is dominated the economy by generating about 30% of its GDP gold silver were mined were industrial minerals, like cement, materials, limestone, salt, sans and gravel. Cerro Petaquilla copper gold prophery deposit and other metallic minerals are found in Ley Petaquilla prophery.
Panama city is the wholesale exporter of exotic and precious timber, such as high quality teak, mahogany and redwood. Almondro one of the denset and hardest timber available along with low maintenance qualities high termite, rot. And balsamo, Santos Mahogany this is a great choice for color and are more durable warranty of 35 years is been given by the Manufacturer to the customer.
Tap drinking water is in Panama as it is safe because it comes from Madden reservoir and is very pure.
Taisha was introduced in Costa Rica while Araya and Alvarado of insect pollinators in commercial oil palms crops. More than 150 food crops depend upon the pollination. Pollinators activity at flowed has a good effect on coffee yield and fruit Der and on berries. Climatic change can affect the geographic distribution of pollination therefore coffee production is influenced by the two ways through pollination services and by the climatic changes.
Common food sources for Panama are maize, rice, wheat floor, plantains, yuca, beef, chicken, pork, and seafood. Major agricultural products include bananas, cocoa beans, coffee, beef, chicken, corn, potatoes, rice, sugar cane, in 2009 agriculture and fisheries made up 7.4% of Panama's Gross domestic product. Panama us the net food importer and the US is its main supplier.
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