Question: What management strategies have been implemented in response to the resilience and vulnerability of a selected ecosystem? The Mojave Desert is a world famous desert that occupies a significant amount of California and smaller parts in surrounding states. Covering thousands of square kilometers‚ the ecosystems can range from 100 meters below sea level up to 2000 meters above sea level. The biophysical interactions within these ecosystems such as earth movements‚ soil formation‚ weather and
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The Sonoran desert of southern Arizona is under severe threat due to a non-native species: 1 buffelgrass (Cenchrus ciliaris). Buffelgrass‚ or African foxtail grass‚ is native to regions of Africa‚ southern Asia‚ Iran‚ and the extreme south of Europe. 2 It is a perennial grass that grows to about 50 cm tall with linear leaves. Buffelgrass was first introduced to Arizona‚ Texas‚ and Sonora‚ Mexico in the 1930’s as a means to feed cattle and prevent soil erosion. Unfortunately‚ many ranchers in Sonora
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impacts of human activity on one or more deserts Human activity is becoming more prolific in deserts in recent years as governments are seeing the important resources that the desert offers. Mining and mineral exploitation‚ farming‚ tourism‚ and growing populations have had both positive and negative effects on desert environments‚ providing both income for local communities but also affecting the desert ecosystem by depleting water and nutrient supply. Deserts in the US‚ Middle East and South America
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History Of Festival The first festival was in 1970 the day after Jimi Hendrix died. The festival was influenced by hippie beliefs and the free festival movement. The biggest festival yet was held in 1990. There was violence the day after the 1990 festival ended between the security guards and new age travellers‚ the fight was named the “Battle of Yeoman’s Bridge”‚ this led to the organisers taking 1991 off to rethink the festival. Duration The ticket price covers entry to the Festival site from
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saying that the extras visitors expected for the event would stimulate the Hospitality Industry through hotels‚ restaurants and pubs. Fletcher (2012) categorises events in conferences‚ meetings‚ sporting spectacles‚ exhibitions‚ product launches‚ festivals and incentive programs. Bowdin et al. (2010:19) bring another approach to the categorisation of events: according to them‚ events are categorised regarding their size and the impact they have: the bigger the impact is‚ the bigger the event is. Getz
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The Atacama Desert forms one of the major hyper-arid deserts of the world and it is known to be the driest place on Earth. The extreme aridity of the climate and unusual mineralogy of the regolith in the Atacama region is of considerable interest because of its value as an analogue to the Martian surface. The sedimentary succession in the Atacama Desert records deposition under an arid to semiarid climate from the late Jurassic (150Ma) to the present day (Hartley‚ 2005). Comparison with other long-lived
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The History of the Mojave desert What does the name “Mojave” mean? The Mojaves were a small North American Indian tribe that lived in the same area as what’s now called the Mojave desert. They spoke a Yuman dialect and were friends with all the other Indian groups on that land. The other native tribes in the Mojave were called Piutes and Chemehuevi. They didn’t have a formal government . They had common Indian rituals and beliefs. An example is that they believed that dreams were meaningful
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The Atacama Desert (Spanish: Desierto de Atacama) is a plateau in South America‚ covering a 1‚000-kilometre (600 mi) strip of land on the Pacific coast‚ west of the Andes mountains. It is‚ according to NASA‚ National Geographic and other sources‚ the driest desert in the world.[1][2][3][4] The Atacama occupies 105‚000 square kilometres (41‚000 sq mi)[5] composed mostly of salt lakes (salares)‚ sand‚ and felsic lava flows towards the Andes The Atacama Desert ecoregion‚ as defined by the World Wide
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BEER FESTIVAL Great American Beer Festival (GABF) Started in 1982‚ the GABF was created by nuclear engineer Charlie Papazian in Boulder‚ Colorado. The original GABF had 22 participating breweries and the 2009 festival had 457. In 2009 the festival expanded into a hall one-third larger than the previous year. The GABF is considered the largest ticketed beer festival in the United States. The Great American Beer Festival (GABF) is a three-day annual event hosted by the Brewers Association‚ held
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Qingming Festival Qingming Festival‚ also known as Pure Brightness Festival‚ which falls on either April 4th or 5th of the solar calendar (one of the Chinese Twenty-four Solar Terms). From that day temperatures begin to rise and rainfall increases‚ indicating that it is crucial time for plowing and sowing in the spring. Qingming Festival therefore has a close relationship with agriculture. However‚ it is not only a seasonal symbol; it is also a festival of paying respect of the dead‚ a spring
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