Ecosystem Services
When you can consume, collect, or take a resource provided by the environment, it is considered this.
What is a provisioning service?
Precipitation less than 50 cm/year is the definition for this type of ecosystem.
What is a desert?
This class of organisms have the highest diversity of all taxa on earth.
What are invertebrates?
This many animals are killed by feral cats each year.
What is 1 billion?
The "urban rumble" is known to do this to birds when compared to members of the same species in rural habitats.
What is reduce fitness?
This highly productive part of an esutary is where rivers and oceans meet, and is both incredibly productive and highly diverse.
What is an ecotone?
This celestial body is responsible for both high and low tides.
What is the Moon?
When a population's birth rate or overall fitness depends on the total number of individuals in the area.
What is density dependence?
When you consider density reductions, habitat modification, and distribution alteration to control non-game species instead of lethal controls, it is known as this.
What is Integrated Pest Management?
This term is used to describe the method where a production system that integrates trees or other perennialvegetation into crop fields.
What is Agro-forestry?
This habitat type provides many regulating services, including but not limited to nutrient cycling, pollution reduction, and flood control.
What are wetlands?
Burrowing is a type of _______ adaptation desert animals use to avoid the heat during the day.
What is a Behavioral Adaptation?
This fish species is one of the longest lived organisms in the ocean (that we know of), and their biodiversity is highest near Santa Barbara, CA.
What are rockfish?
If you use rat poison to kill pests, but it unintentionally affects higher trophic level organisms such as owls or mountain lions, it is known as this.
What is bioaccumulation and/or non-target loss.
When human ecological footprints are larger than the ecosystem services provided by the land they occupy, they are in a _______.
What is an ecologicial deficit?
When a habitat's abiotic conditions have changed so drastically that restoring biotic conditions to their original setting is impossible, it is defined as this.
What is a novel ecosystem?
These two abiotic forces are the primary drivers of estuary structure.
What is salinity and hydrodynamics (freshwater inputs)?
This term is applied to an organism from the past that species alive today were related to before they evolved.
What is the most recent common ancestor?
When human presence affects carnivore behavior, and it affects multiple species across trophic levels, it is known as this.
What is a Behavioral Cascade?
This term defines voluntary agreements between landowners and another party to restrict activities on private land.
What are conservation easments?
This percentage of wetlands has been lost in CA.
What is 90%?
This effect of climate change is going to make estuarine restoration much harder in the future.
What is reduced precipitation/drought?
This family of carnivores have the highest biodiversity.
This term is used to describe the idea that carnivores are an essential control for herbivore populations, and in turn maintain plant abundance across habitats.
What is the Green Hypothesis?
This strategy is the most effective way humans can integrate wildlife into urban areas.
What is conservation-inclusive architecture?