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The Nature and Vulnerability of Tropical Ecosystems
Category: A-Level Geography
The first in a series of eight A-Level geography booklets designed to meet the GCE A2 specification.
See the sample pages below.
"The purpose of this book is to examine the nature of some ... tropical regions or biomes and to examine how fragile these ecosystems are when threatened by certain human activities." (Chapter 1)
Topics covered include:
Chapter 1: Distribution of tropical biomes; tropical circulation and climate; the Hadley Cell; climate characteristics.
Chapter 2: Trophic structure; biomass and productivity; nutrient cycling; zonal soils; the tropical forest ecosystem; The Amazon basin; semi-arid tropics; The Sahel.
Chapter 3: People in the tropical forests; slash and burn cultivation; deforestation in the Amazon Basin; the Korup Project, Cameroon; Coca Agroforestry, Ecuador.
Chapter 4: Population growth and human activity in semi-arid ecosystems; water management; irrigation; the Nile valley; salinisation; irrigation and salinisation in Pakistan.
Martin Thom BA (QUB 1991), PGCE (Stranmillis College 1982), taught geography at Secondary level in a number of schools in Bangor before moving to Sullivan Upper School, Holywood, in 1989. He later became head of department when Jim Robinson retired. His interests include reading, travel and people.
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