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What is resident and migrants
Animals will often not use the same habitat year round, but they will use it during certain parts of the year or certain parts of what cycle?
What is the annual cycle
What do we the new growth sections stemming from branches of Big sagebrush?
what are leaders
These are lands with predominately indigenous vegetation comprising of grasses, forbs, shrubs, and some dispersed trees that are typically grazed
What are rangelands
Soils typically are made of 3 main components, Which are:
what are sand, silt, and clay
Desiccation, refers to when an animal is deceased. True or False.
What is False. It refers to amphibians, and how they are sensitive to non-moist climates, and are susceptible to "drying out"
This group of birds are often touted as highly migratory individuals and may utilize wetlands during different parts of an annual cycle.
What are shorebirds
What tool is used to measure DBH?
What is a D-tape
Why do we have a transmitter weight to body weight maximum when GPS tagging birds like raptors and waterfowl?
What is because it negatively begins to influences flight performance
Poor soils typically support what type of habitat structure?
During the egg laying period, waterfowl typically lay how many eggs per day?
What is one per day
The main objective of Habitat Management is to improve conditions to support wildlife WHILE also implementing what?
What is sustainable land use and conservation practices
In Forest Management, we often used fixed or variable plots to determine measures like TPA or TBA. If we were to use the variable plot method, we tend to use _________ which determines whether a tree will be "in" in a plot.
A stand with two distinct age classes of trees are often called ___________.
What is even-aged, or even-aged stand
Canopy cover, and density can heavily influence the plant communities within the understory. A big worry in forest management is if crown density is really high, the stand or forest is at risk of what type of wildfire?
What species is often referred to as an "ecosystem engineer"
What is a Beaver
In December of 2024, Congress passed ACE (America's Conservation Enhancement Reauthorization Act) which provides funding for what piece of Wetland conservation legislation?
What is NAWCA or North American Wetlands Conservation Act
Describe what Optimal Habitat is and describe what may be a nuance to the concept when we think about behavior on an individual level.
What is high quality habitat for a given species and individuals may exhibit individual variation in habitat preferences, therefore, different individuals may see habitat quality (whats more optimal) differently.
What is the first tenet of the NAM?
What is Wildlife are a public trust resource.
This type of thinning is often used to keep high quality trees, weeding out non-economical or unhealthy trees.
What is crop-tree thinning or selective thinning.
This Hypothesis refers to when animals follow the phenology or timing of "green-up" of spring plants along an elevational gradient.
What is the green-wave hypothesis
Colonial nesting species, like the Great Blue Heron, nest in specific habitat wherein tall trees abut or are close to water. These colonial nesting sites are called _______?
What are rookeries
Fertilizing soil with nitrogen may provide significant benefits to vegetation, particularly monocultures of crops. However, it's benefits are context dependent as its process in delivering nutrients is very nuanced. Typically, nitrogen fertilization is done by spreading this waste byproduct with nitrogen compounds also known as _________
what is urea
What is the formula for determining Tree Basal Area?
what is TBA = 0.005454 x DBH^2
1 DED is equal to the amount of food necessary to feed one duck for 1 day. However, this is for ducks that are usually ______ sized ducks?