The Guardian online has created an very interesting interactive – type in your birth date (after 1951) and find out what the world population was on that day. If anybody is teaching Topic 3 right now could be a very nice little resource to help illustrate how the rate of increase is increasing.
Researchers at Sterling University have found that gardens support bigger bee populations that farmed land. Obviously this has major implications for the conservation of bees which have been the focus of a lot of media attention over the last few years. Of special interest to ESS is how the researchers counted the population. They didnt count indiviudal bees seen flying about around flowers as these are sterile worker bees what they counted was the number f nests, each nest containing one breeding female queen. A very intersting take on what is a considered a populatio
The full story can be viewed on the BBC science or the abstract of the research form the Journal of Applied Ecology
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