Biodiversity Ecosystem Function
The number and abundance of plant species in a particular area
What is biodiversity?
The largest ecozone
What is the Ontario Shield?
Biome home to greatest percentage of old growth forest
What is the temperate rainforest?
Biome characterized by plants with rounded canopy morphology of low growing shrubs with closely spaced leaves and tightly packed branches
What is the tundra?
The name of the local conservation authority
What is the Essex Regional Conservation Authority?
The ability of an ecosystem to maintain its structure over time
What is persistence?
Northern Taiga Ecoregion is in this Ecozone
What are the Hudson Bay Lowlands?
The smallest terrestrial ecozone
What is the Mixedwood Plains?
Biome with cool winters, warm summers; year-round precipitation; high leaf litter production
What is the temperate deciduous forest?
A prairie management strategy to prevent invasive species and encroaching forest into the prairie
What is a controlled burn? (fire)
The speed at which an ecosystem returns to its original state
What is resilience?
The majority of land cover in the Lake Simcoe – Rideau Ecoregion
What is cropland?
The largest terrestrial biome
What is the Boreal Forest (Taiga)?
biome with highest degree of vertical stratification and species diversity
What is the tropical forest?
Exploiting the system for our own personal uses, while ensuring natural areas are also conserved
What is plant management?
This hypothesis states that combinations of species that differ in resource use will have greater impacts on ecosystem function
What is the Niche Complementarity hypothesis?
This ecoregion is the most at risk due to the amount of habitat that has been lost as a result of agriculture and urbanization
What is the Lake Ontario-Lake Erie Ecoregion?
The term for the scale of typical disturbances in the Prairies
What is stand replacement dynamics?
Biome with large seasonal temperature variation (hot summers and cold winters), precipitation varies, but usually with large summer peak
What are grasslands?
Maintaining existing areas to preserve specific diversity of plants, mammals, birds, and insects, rather than preservation of biodiversity in general
What is conservation?
This hypothesis states that the more species diversity that's found in an ecosystem, the greater the range of traits needed by those species to make use of available resources.
What is the species complementarity hypothesis?
Palsas--peat mounds with a permanently frozen peat and mineral soil core--are a dominant feature within the landscapes of this Ecoregion.
What is the Hudson Bay Coast?
The term for the scale of typical disturbances in the Carolinian Forest
What is gap dynamics?
An important source of methane within the oceans contributing to climate change
What are Clathrates?
The International Union for Conservation of Nature classification for protecting flora or fauna of national importance by strictly limiting human access and use
What is a strict nature reserve?