Con Bio Basics
Biodiversity
Extinction
Climate Change and Biodiversity
Misc
100
What is the difference between conservation and preservation
Conservation allows for human activity and management, preservation leaves wild places "untouched"
100
What type of biomes would you expect with moderate temperatures with relatively low rainfall?
Temperate grassland
100
How many mass extinctions has earth already experienced?
5
100
What does Y2Y stand for?
Yellowstone to Yukon
100
What is bycatch
unintentional capture of marine species in fishing gear that are not the target species
200
What does TEK stand for?
Traditional Ecological Knowledge
200
What is an ecotone?
The boundary area between two ecosystems
200
What is the top predictor of a species going extinct?
How rare it is
200
Due to climate change, what direction is most important for large wildlife corridors to be oriented?
North/South (Up/Down mountains)
200
What is the great SLoSS debate?
Single large or several small preserves
300
What are the two main climate characteristics that form different biomes
Temperature and precipitation
300
What are the two main components needed when calculating biodiversity
species richness and species evens
300
Describe the relationship between the size of a species range and their population numbers for most types of organisms?
300
What is the general trend of biodiversity on the planet?
Toward increasing biodiversity
300
What are three features of "edge effect"
Increased sunlight, increased predation, increase wind damage, drier soils, increased nitrogen
400
What does PES stand for?
Payment for Ecosystem Services
400
What is the difference between ecosystem integrity and biological integrity?
Ecosystem integrity includes the abiotic factors
400
Describe the graph that would represent range size on the x axis and the percent of species on the y axis
400
What is meant by landscape permiability?
The ability of animals to move safely across and through a landscape
400
What is the difference between a remnant wildlife corridor and a regenerative wildlife corridor?
Remnant is remaining habitat from the previous ecosystem, regenerative is disturbed land that is restored to a more "wild" condition
500
What is the difference between alpha, beta, and gamma biodiversity?
Alpha - species richness of a specific area
Beta - the difference in species richness between two areas
Gamma - the biodiversity of a region including multiple ecosystems
500
Where would you find most of the small range species on the planet?
Islands
500
What is a phenological mismatch?
when the timing of life-cycle events in interacting species changes at different rates
500
What is appendix III of CITES and what is required of people transporting these species?
When one country is trying to protect a species in their country. People much have a certificate of origin.