Terms and
Scale and
Genes and space
Good to know
Peeps
Get Your Act Together
100
Widely accepted generalizations based on research and having wide applicability. Considered in formulating management decisions
What is a principle
100
Scale that has a definite zero.
What is ratio?
100
Form of a gene.
What is an allele?
100
In the 1700 and 1800s, this kind of hunting exploited birds, deer, and other wildlife.
What is market hunting? (or pot hunting)
100
Father of game management.
Who is Aldo Leopold.
100
What 1964 act preserved areas where the earth and its community of life are untrammeled by man, where man is a visitor who does not remain.
What is the 1964 Wilderness Act?
200
Group of coexisting individuals of the same species in an area.
What is a population?
200
Small, medium, large.
What is ordinal or ranked scale?
200
NAM
What is the North American Model of game management?
200
To address the biodiversity crisis, EO Wilson said scientists need to do what one thing?
What is catalog all species?
200
Author of Tragedy of the Commons.
Who is Garrett Hardin?
200
First legislation for wildlife conservation, limits transport of game. Strengthens game laws and stops illegal trade of wildlife e.g. plumage/meat.
What is the Lacey Act?
300
Free-ranging fish, mammals, birds, herps (etc) in their natural environment.
What is wildlife?
300
Changing of scales results in quantitatively different patterns.
What is transmutation?
300
Changes in gene frequencies through time.
What is evolution?
300
"To overspread and possess the whole of the continent..."
What is Manifest Destiny?
300
Commercialized as cheap food, hunted on a massive scale. Slow decline 1870-1890, last wild bird shot in 1901. Extinct.
What is the passenger pigeon?
300
Makes education affordable to all. Education seen as important to natural resource conservation.
What is the Land Grant Act of 1862?
400
The number of offspring an organism has that survives and reproduces in the next generation.
What is fitness
400
Growth rate is different among body parts.
What is allometric?
400
Greater number of plant species leads to greater community productivity and_______________
What is stability?
400
Term that refers to an organism having more than one offspring in its lifetime.
What is iteroparous.
400
Establishes Yellowstone National Park in 1872.
Who is President Grant?
400
Authorizes the federal government to purchase lands to protect stream flow, set hunting seasons and bag limit for migratory birds.
What is the Weeks Act of 1911?
500
Term that describes biological diversity.
What is biodiversity?
500
When point-based measures of spatial phenomena are aggregated into district, resulting values are influence by shape and scale of aggregating unit.
What is the modifiable areal unit problem.
500
Allele frequency that confers fitness.
What is heterozygosity?
500
Two organizations whose missions include sustainable yield.
Who are the US Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management?
500
Silent Spring.
Who is Rachel Carson?
500
Taxes hunting weapons and ammunition and funds state wildlife restoration projects, research, and education.
What is the P-R Act? (Pittman Robertson Federal Aid in Wildlife Restoration Act)
600
Evolution acts on what level?
What is population?
600
Ecological problems are complex, difficult to measure and cannot be scaled.
What is the problem of scale?
600
Contribution of individuals genotype passed on to next generation.
What is fitness?
600
Conserve, protect, and enhance fish, wildlife, plants and their habitats for the continuing benefit of the American people.
Who is the US Fish and Wildlife Service.
600
First Director of the US Forest Service.
Who is Gifford Pinchot?
600
Ends open grazing on public lands.
What is the Taylor Grazing Act of 1934?
700
Ultimate source of biodiversity at all levels.
What is genetic diversity?
700
Term that defines time and space.
What is spatiotemproal?
700
Spatial interpolation where a few data points are used to interpolate a surface.
What is kriging?
700
In the Greater Yellowstone Complex, wolves are the apex predator and coyotes are ____________. Both influence pronghorn fawn survival rates.
What is a meso-predator?
700
Responsible for the development of the Civilian Conservation Corps.
Who is President Roosevelt?
700
Excise tax on fishing equipment and boats. Used to restore freshwater fisheries.
What is the D-J Act? (Dingell-Johnson Federal Aid in Fisheries Restoration Act)