H2 Biology Extension B - Climate Change: Greenhouse Gases, Ecosystems, and Disease Vectors

What you will learn

• Distinguishes the natural greenhouse effect from the human-caused enhanced version driven by fossil fuels, deforestation, and methane sources.
• Coral bleaching: corals expel their zooxanthellae when sea temperature rises just 1 to 2 degrees Celsius above the summer maximum.
• Phenological mismatch and poleward range shifts threaten biodiversity, especially specialists with limited dispersal.