Ecology
This term describes a community of living organisms, interactions with each other, and interactions with their physical environment.
Ecosystem
This iconic migratory insect is famous for its orange and black wings, and massive, multi-generational journeys across North America to wintering sites in Mexico and California.
Monarch Butterfly (Danaus plexippus)
Previously named Mr. Eagle, Eppy, and Victor, this charismatic eagle is the official costumed mascot of the University of North Texas Mean Green.
Scrappy
This preserve, founded in 2016 by UNT Students and UNT Clinical Professor Dr. Jaime Baxter-Slye, contains 20 acres of actively restored prairie with observed representation from over 1,194 species.
(Pecan Creek) Pollinative Prairie / Diamond Eagles Community Learning Area?
This famous work of scientific literature written by Charles Darwin introduces the scientific theory that populations evolve over the course of time through natural selection
On the Origin of Species
This emerging interdisciplinary field of science studies the coordinated efforts to return an ecosystem to a pre-anthropogenic or stable state, analyzing practices, applications, and techniques
Restoration Ecology
This dietary classification for small to medium sized mammals is distinguished by a diet of 30-70% meat supplemented by other foods like fruits, insects, and fungi.
Mesocarnivore
The University of North Texas is ranked as the ______ largest University in Texas, reaching a Record Enrollment of 46,940 students in Fall 2023
This 2,000+ acre preserve serves as a "living lab" for biodiversity and environmental education for local schools. It is situated just south of Lewisville Lake, and is a frequent trip for UNT Ecology affiliated groups.
Lewisville Lake Environmental Learning Area
This term describes the tendency for similar morphological traits to arise in separate species given similar environmental pressures, despite having formed those traits after evolutionary divergence
Convergent Evolution
These designated, connected strips of natural habitat such as forests, rivers, or hedgerows link isolated wildlife populations separated by human activities like roads or urban development.
Habitat Corridor
This classification of Universities distinguishes an institution as maintaining "very high research activity", and exists at the top of the Carnegie Classification System. U.N.T. is one of these
R1 / Tier 1 Research University
Named for pioneer Jim Clymer, this 1,475 acre preserve managed by The Nature Conservancy in Celeste TX is a prime representative of the remnants of the Blackland Prairie.
Clymer Meadow Nature Preserve
This hypothesis, named after the Greek goddess personifying Earth, postulates recognizing the entire biosphere as a single organism and that ecological systems regulate the abiotic systems they depend on
Gaia Hypothesis
This popular campus library serves as a specialized branch focusing on government documents (federal/state depository), education, and social sciences. It houses extensive juvenile/curriculum collections, maps, and grant resources (Funding Information Network).
Sycamore Library
This preserve, managed by both its respective non-profit organization and the City of Fort Worth Park and Recreation department, is a biodiversity hotspot and exemplary representation of the Fort Worth Limestone Prairie Ecoregion
Tandy Hills Natural Area
This term describes the outdated idea that all species are morphologically fixed and unchanging through time
Species Immutability
This controversial naturalist, zoologist, and eugenicist coined the term ecology - oikos (the house) and logos (study)
Ernst Haeckel
Originally founded to train educators in 1890, ________ was the founding name of the University we now call the University of North Texas.
Texas Normal College (and Teacher Training Institute)
Spearheaded by Doug Tallamy, this nature preserve spans across the entire country is a bottom-up call-to-action to restore habitat where we live and work, and increases in size every day.
Homegrown National Park
This clade and supergroup, with its namesake derived from 'posterior flagellum', encompasses both fungi and animals but not plants or slime molds
Opisthokonta