Biodiversity
Ecosystem Services
Islands
Tolerance
Disruptions
100
This type of diversity explains that ecosystems that have a larger number of species are more likely to recover from disruptions.
What is species diversity?
100
Something that is produced by an ecosystem and can be used by humans.
What is a provisioning service?
100
Islands that are large and this tend to have the most migration from the mainland.
What is close?
100
The peak conditions that a species can exist in.
What are the optimum conditions?
100
The term for human-caused disturbances.
What are anthropogenic?
200
The community that is more diverse.
What is community 1?
200
Services of particular personal value to humans
What are culutural services?
200
Islands that are this and far from the mainland tend to have the least biodiversity.
What is far?
200
This is an intolerent zone.
What is Zone A?
300
The number of different species in a specific area, such as a landscape, ecological community, or region
What is species richness?
300
Ecotourism
What is a cultural service?
300
This graph represents this island biogeography concept.
What is the island equilibrium model?
300
This zone is known for physiological stress.
What is Zone B?
300
Disturbances that occur at repeated intervals
What are periodic?
400
This type of diversity allows a particular species to have a good chance of surviving a natural disruption IF the diversity is high.
What is genetic diversity?
400
Trees provide shade/lower local temperatures.
What is a regulating service?
400
Organisms that exist only on a specific island.
What are endemic species.
400
An organism that can signal changes in its environment, and can be used to help assess the health of an ecosystem
What is an indicator species?
400
Disturbances occurring occasionally and at irregular intervals
What are episodic?
500
Renewable commodities.
What are provisioning services?
500
Conditions such as temperature, pH, salinity, etc. that determine an organisms tolerance range.
What are abiotic factors?
500
This is the largest cause of tree-cover loss in Africa.
What is agriculture?
600
This is a dramatic reduction in the size of a population, often caused by a catastrophic event like a natural disaster, disease outbreak, or human activity, which leads to a significant decrease in genetic diversity within that population as only a small number of individuals survive to reproduce, passing on a limited gene pool to future generations.
What is a population bottleneck?
600
Habitats
Photosynthesis
Nutrient cycling
Soil formation
Water cycle
Genetic diversity
What are supporting services?
600
The concept that explains why Darwin's finches all evolved different beak sizes/shapes to fulfill different niches on the Galapagos Islands.
What is adaptive radiation?
700
The collection of all genes, including different variations (alleles), present within a specific breeding population of a species at a given time; if this is low, a species is vulnerable to collapse.
What is a gene pool?
700
Mangroves mitigate storm damages along coastlines.
What are regulating services?
700
A measure of how quickly the ecosystem can “bounce back” from the disturbance.
What is resilience?