Ecology
This term describes a community of living organisms, interactions with each other, and interactions with their physical environment.
Ecosystem
This iconic migratory insect is famous for its orange and black wings, and massive, multi-generational journeys across North America to wintering sites in Mexico and California.
Monarch Butterfly (Danaus plexippus)
Previously named Mr. Eagle, Eppy, and Victor, this charismatic eagle is the official costumed mascot of the University of North Texas Mean Green.
Scrappy
This preserve, founded in 2016 by UNT Students and UNT Clinical Professor Dr. Jaime Baxter-Slye, contains 20 acres of actively restored prairie with observed representation from over 1,194 species.
(Pecan Creek) Pollinative Prairie / Diamond Eagles Community Learning Area?
This Texas state flower paints highways red each spring and was promoted by the “Lady Bird Johnson Highway Beautification” movement.
Texas Bluebonnet (Lupinus texensis)
This emerging interdisciplinary field of science studies the coordinated efforts to return an ecosystem to a pre-anthropogenic or stable state, analyzing practices, applications, and techniques
Restoration Ecology
One of the only mammals that lays eggs, this Australian monotreme detects prey through electroreceptors in its bill.
Platypus (Ornithorhychus anatinus)
The University of North Texas is ranked as the ______ largest University in Texas, reaching a Record Enrollment of 46,940 students in Fall 2023
This 2,000+ acre preserve serves as a "living lab" for biodiversity and environmental education for local schools. It is situated just south of Lewisville Lake, and is a frequent trip for UNT Ecology affiliated groups.
Lewisville Lake Environmental Learning Area
This genus of plants, famous for hosting monarch butterfly caterpillars, produces milky sap that can be toxic to many herbivores.
Milkweed (Asclepias)
These designated, connected strips of natural habitat such as forests, rivers, or hedgerows link isolated wildlife populations separated by human activities like roads or urban development.
Habitat Corridor
The fastest animal on Earth, capable of dives exceeding 200 mph while hunting birds in midair.
Peregrine Falcon (Falco peregrinus)
This classification of Universities distinguishes an institution as maintaining "very high research activity", and exists at the top of the Carnegie Classification System. U.N.T. is one of these
R1 / Tier 1 Research University
Named for pioneer Jim Clymer, this 1,475 acre preserve managed by The Nature Conservancy in Celeste TX is a prime representative of the remnants of the Blackland Prairie.
Clymer Meadow Nature Preserve
This dominant tallgrass of the Great Plains can grow over 8 feet tall and is named for its distinctive “turkey foot” seed head.
Big Bluestem (Andropogon gerardii)
This hypothesis, named after the Greek goddess personifying Earth, postulates recognizing the entire biosphere as a single organism and that ecological systems regulate the abiotic systems they depend on
Gaia Hypothesis
This dietary classification for small to medium sized mammals is distinguished by a diet of 30-70% meat supplemented by other foods like fruits, insects, and fungi.
Mesocarnivore
This popular campus library serves as a specialized branch focusing on government documents (federal/state depository), education, and social sciences. It houses extensive juvenile/curriculum collections, maps, and grant resources (Funding Information Network).
Sycamore Library
This preserve, managed by both its respective non-profit organization and the City of Fort Worth Park and Recreation department, is a biodiversity hotspot and exemplary representation of the Fort Worth Limestone Prairie Ecoregion
Tandy Hills Natural Area
This subtype of mycorrhiza penetrates plant root cells and forms arbuscules, dramatically increasing the surface area for nutrient exchange.
Arbuscular Mycorrhiza
This controversial naturalist, zoologist, and eugenicist coined the term ecology - oikos (the house) and logos (study)
Ernst Haeckel
During spring mating season, males of this endangered Texas subspecies of prairie grouse inflate bright orange air sacs on their necks while performing a lek display.
Attwater's Prairie Chicken (Tympanuchus cupido attwateri)
Originally founded to train educators in 1890, ________ was the founding name of the University we now call the University of North Texas.
Texas Normal College (and Teacher Training Institute)
Spanning across the entire nation and spearheaded by author Doug Tallamy, this "nature preserve" is a bottom-up call-to-action to restore habitat where we live and work, and increases in size every day.
Homegrown National Park
This prairie legume improves soil fertility by hosting nitrogen-fixing bacteria in its root nodules and produces purple cylindrical flower spikes.
Purple Prairie Clover (Dalea purpurea)