Diversity
This kind of biodiversity references the different kinds of biomes, habitats, and ecological processes.
What is ecosystem diversity?
This ecosystem service includes food, drinking water, and raw materials that the ecosystem provides.
What are provisioning services?
This type of ecological succession begins on bare rock where no soil exists, such as after a volcanic eruption.
What is primary succession?
This natural disaster is caused by transform boundaries and causes immense shaking of the earth.
What is an earthquake?
This term describes an organism range of environment conditions that they can be successful in.
What is tolerance?
This kind of biodiversity measures the different kinds of species and how many there are.
What are supporting services?
This process happens after a disturbance like a forest fire or hurricane, when soil and some life still remain.
What is immigration rate?
This type of disaster can create islands and new habitats over time.
What are volcanic eruptions?
This global phenomenon is putting large amounts of stress on many species because it increase temperatures around the globe.
What is global warming?
The differences in DNA between organisms in the same species.
Wetlands preventing flooding is what type of ecosystem service.
What are regulating services?
These are the first organisms to colonize barren environments during primary succession—often lichens or mosses.
Pioneer Species
These intense storms can cause flooding, uproot vegetation, and displace wildlife.
What are hurricanes?
The species are more at risk of dying when the ecosystem changes.
What are specialist species?
Species with high genetic diversity are less likely to die from what.
What is disease?
National parks providing recreational activity is this kind of ecosystem service.
What are cultural services?
A raccoon, which can eat a variety of foods and live in many environments, is an example of this type of species.
What is a generalist species?
This disruption alters temperature and weather patterns over long periods of time.
What is climate change?
This type of species are able to live in a variety environments and are highly adaptable.
What are generalist species?
Ecosystem diversity diversity has a direct relationship with this kind of diversity.
What is species diversity?
This type of ecosystem service regulates the environment.
What are regulation services?
When island size increases or its proximity to the mainland is reduced this will happen to species richness.
What is increased?
This type of environmental recovery occurs after large disturbances in an ecosystem.
What is ecological succession?
There have been this many mass extinctions.
What is 5?