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Types of human interaction?
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Exploiters, Competitors, Predators, and Mutualists.
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What led to the need for population management?
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Overexploitation.
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The amount of resource harvested per unit time?
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Yield.
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Harvesting at a level that will ensure a similar yield over and over without forcing the population into decline?
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Sustained Yield.
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Inventory, measurement of growth and potential yields of biomass, and manipulation of populations or stands of trees?
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Forestry Management.
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How can we relate agriculture with human/plant and animal mutualism?
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The vast majority of human food resources comes from agriculture. Many agricultural products are a result of intense selective breeding resulting in a stronger species of plant able to flourish at a higher rate. The same is true for livestick.
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General term describing plants growing anywhere they are not desired?
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Weeds.
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Animals that humans consider undesireable?
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Pests.
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One of the common ways of controlling weeds and pests?
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Chemicals (insecticides, herbicides, and pesticides).
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The goal of restoration ecology?
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To return an ecosystem to a close approximation of its conditions prior to disturbance through the application of ecological principles.
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Types of restoration efforts?
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Rejuvenation of existing communities, Recreation of the community from scratch, Reintroduction of exploited species, and Transplantation of individuals.
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