Chapter 19 / 7 short lessons
Climate, biodiversity and disease ecology
Connect carbon choices to ecosystem stress, food resilience and changing vector risks.
H2 Biology / 9477 / 2027 syllabus
What do you think?
Does a warmer region with mosquitoes automatically have local dengue transmission?
Lessons
0 of 7 marked as readHuman activity changes carbon flows
Explain fossil fuels, deforestation and food choices as CO2/methane sources.
About 7 minCompare whole-system carbon footprints
Compare land-use, energy-source and food-production footprints.
About 7 minWarming changes habitats and interactions
Explain climate effects on water, ice, ecosystems, migration and niches.
About 8 minMangroves store carbon and protect coasts
Explain mangrove climate mitigation and coastal protection.
About 6 minFood supply and tropical biodiversity
Discuss food stress, tropical diversity, biomedicines and crop genetic resources.
About 8 minTemperature and the Aedes life cycle
Explain insect metabolism, thermal tolerance and Aedes aegypti development.
About 7 minWarming and disease-range shifts
Explain changing dengue and malaria risks beyond the tropics.
About 7 minWhat you will be able to do
- Explain emissions and compare footprint boundaries.
- Trace climate effects through ecosystems and food supply.
- Evaluate temperature-dependent mosquito and disease-range evidence.