Acronyms
This government document intends to outline the influence of a potential project on its nearby environment, and is abbreviated as EIS.
What is an Environmental Impact Statement?
A few select species of termites, along with the help of their gut microbiome, can digest what is known as lignin, which is considered this type of nutrient.
What is fiber?
Bring your binoculars and field guides to look up at trees and participate in this non-consumptive activity, which 96 million other in the US participate in to.
What is birdwatching?
This man received an honorary Doctor of Science from Oxford for his works on using matrices to study population dynamics.
Who is Leslie?
The species name for Nekemias arborea, the peppervine, lends itself to this structure that it always wants to climb.
What is a tree?
The acronym SLOSS was first posed by Jared Diamond to answer the question of which of these two reserves were better for biodiversity.
What is Single Large or Several Small?
This rule in ecology, which states that within a clade, larger sizes are found in colder climates, especially holds true for white-tailed deer due to their food availability.
What is Bergman's rule?
These types of organizations, groups, and individuals have a vested interest in, or are otherwise impacted by the actions and/or decisions of a project.
What are stakeholders?
This man was a business executive and widely acclaimed ornithologist who gained popularity for his methods to calculate nest success.
Who is Mayfield?
The species name for Crataegus viridis tells you you type of hawthorn it is, whose color can be found all throughout the tree.
What is green?
Shrews are the mammal with the highest this, which is defined as how much energy animals burn by just existing and abbreviated as BMR.
What is the Basal Metabolic Rate?
With a chemical formula known as C5H4N4O3, this byproduct is created when the body breaks down purines and is excreted by several types of animals.
What is uric acid?
This type of model tends to specifically focus on the narrow hunting constituency.
What is pay-to-play?
What is Ducks Unlimited?
The species name for Parthenocissus quinquefolia tells you exactly what you need to identify this vine, which are how many of this important part for any herbaceous plant.
What are 5 leaves?
The Louisiana government plans to support reestablishing efforts of the whooping crane as outlined in this document that is updated every 10 years and is often shortened to SWAP.
What are State Wildlife Action Plans?
This type of scaling stems from the tradeoff between surface area and volumes.
What is allometric?
What is the public trust doctrine?
The Island Biogeography Model helps to predict population sizes as well and immigration and extinction rates based on an island's size and proximity to the mainland, and was first proposed by these two scientists.
Who are MacArthur and Wilson?
The species name for Symplocos tinctoria, commonly called sweetleaf, comes from the Latin word tingere, which means to do this, which is a process to turn cloth from one color to another.
What is to dye?