Conservation
This location in Florida is home to creatures such as Alligators, Manatees, plants like Mangroves, and algae such as periphyton.
What are the Everglades?
This is known as the movement of huge herds of animals
What is migration?
When their bone marrow fat percent was measured, wildebeest that had dropped dead (not from predators) were most likely to have this nutritional status.
What is starved?
This is the rainiest month in the Serengeti.
This term is used to describe a mathematical representation or formula
What is an algorithm?
This term is used to describe the variety of living species in a system
What is biodiversity?
The wildebeest spend all wet season in this location.
The South
This bacteria grows in the soil and can infect wildebeest in June and July when they go to the Handejega region.
This rain data station is in the North, and gets the most rain all year long.
What is Kogatende?
Migrating helps maintain a higher population for wildebeest as compared to these other large mammals that do not migrate as far.
This conserved river in Washington state is home to many salmon and bears.
What is the Hoh river?
The wildebeest travel to this location during the dry season because it has the most rain.
What is Kogatende, or the north?
In Dr. Mduma's research, this gruesome fate was more likely for wildebeest that had "stressed" nutritional health
Based on rainfall, December through May in the Serengeti is known as this season.
The wet season.
The amount of wildebeest that can be supported by the environment (carrying capacity) is about this many, in millions.
1.3 (million)
This conserved desert is in Arizona and is home to an incredible type of cactus that it is named for.
What is the Saguaro Desert?
This region is where the wildebeest have their babies (calving).
The south
This disease was vaccinated for in the early 1960's and was previously a limiting factor for the wildebeest population size
Based on rainfall, June through November in the Serengeti is known as this season
The dry season
Both food and disease were examples of this that limited wildebeest population
What are limiting factors?
This conserved lake in the northeastern United States is overridden with the invasive Quagga mussel, which can produce millions of eggs in a year.
What is Lake Michigan?
This is a tribe in the Serengeti that was kicked out of the park for a time and who have been typically denied a voice in decision making.
This is a river in the Serengeti that flows all year round and is a dangerous crossing for wildebeest due to crocodiles.
What is the Mara river?
These are the names of the three rain data stations we learned about.
This term describes the maximum population size of a species that an environment can support
What is carrying capacity?