Management Era's (2)
Populations (3)
Population Growth (4-5)
Sustained Yield (6-7)
Harvest Management (8-9)
100
The manipulation of wildlife populations and/or habitat to achieve a goal.
What is Wildlife Management?
100
A group of animals identifiable by species, place, and time.
What is a population?
100
K
What is carrying capacity
100
level of harvest allowed to maintain stable populations
What is sustained yield
100
Populations increase as density decreases
What is Allee Effect
200
11% excise tax on sporting arms and ammunition sales
What is the Pittman-Robertson Act
200
The number of births (per something)
What is Natality?
200
2.718
What is the natural log
200
K/2
What is inflection point
200
point at which population is at equilibrium
What is K
300
Act passed in 1966
What is the Endangered Species Act?
300
A growth model that assumes resources are unlimited
What is exponential growth model
300
Assumes resources are unlimited
What is exponential growth model
300
-all individuals the same - no time lag - overly simplistic - no basis for management
What are assumptions of the logistic growth model
300
method enforced to obtain MSY
What is sustainable wildlife harvest
400
Pisgah National Forest
What is the first eastern national forest?
400
A population size which produces the recruits
What is residual population
400
R = N(r)((K-N)/K)
What is the sigmoid growth equations
400
In density dependent growth, decreases in births and increases in deaths
What does a population do as it reaches K
400
If you harvest a given number of individual, then youstimulate the population to increase
What is fixed quota
500
The Mongol Empire
What is the location of the first record of game management?
500
when births decline and deaths increase as N increases above a certain point
What is density dependent growth
500
alpha = N(t+1)/N(t)
What is the population growth model that does not account for K
500
Hunting x# days or only x # hunters can hunt
What is constant effort
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