Wetlands
The three main types of wetlands.
The difference between hunting and poaching.
What is poaching is illegal?
A type of ground cover which does not allow for water to soak through.
What is impervious surface?
What is a difference between plant and animal invasive species?
The level of the trophic pyramid that should be far larger than all other levels.
What are producers?
The characteristic MOST reliable in identifying a wetland
What is soil type?
The most critical challenge facing wild populations across the globe.
What is habitat loss?
A major problem in urban areas that results from too much water in a given area in a given amount of time.
What is flooding?
A domesticated invader that causes more wildlife kills than any other invasive species.
What are cats?
This is the process of an organism returning to an ancestral environment, and is characteristic of aquatic grasses.
What is secondarily adapted?
A plant species that is ONLY found living in wetland environments
What is Obligate wetland species?
An example of a fishery that was NOT sustainably managed.
What is cod (Cape Cod fishery)?
The process by which water naturally soaks into the soil and may become available to plants and/or replenish groundwater.
What is filtration?
A well-developed root system in Phragmites that allows for asexual reproduction and can be found up to 6 feet under the soil surface.
What is rhizome?
The type of plan that addresses potential disruptions such as budget cuts, changing permit requirements, and weather.
What is the Risk Management Plan?
This increases as energy passes through water and nears a shore.
What is the height of a wave?
A strategy that has led to increased fish stocks in some fisheries, but has been unsuccessful in others.
What is moratorium?
As urbanization increases, these are more likely to be picked up by moving water and enter waterways.
What are contaminants?
A management strategy for plant invaders that involves hands-on, non-chemical removal strategies.
What is cultural control?
This is the most important piece of information to know when using GIS to research a restoration site.
What is the address/coordinates of the site?
Restoration projects in tidal wetlands focus primarily on this to stabilize shorelines from coastal erosion.
What is slowing wave energy?
This is the remaining strategy left when an invasive species crosses the "critical threshold" on the invasion curve.
What is management?
This is the difference between stormwater management philosophies between city planners and ecologists.
What is city planners want to move water as quickly as possible from point A to point B, while ecologists want to slow water down to allow time for filtration and absorption into plants and soil.
This is the most important rule to follow when applying chemical control to an area.
What is the "label law"?
The TWO most significant threats to water quality worldwide
What are nutrient and sediment pollution?