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13 Cards in this Set
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Front (Term) Anthropogenic |
Back (Definition) Substances or processes that resulted from human activity |
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Front (Term) Matriarch
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Back (Definition) A woman that rules or dominate a family |
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Front (Term) Macronutrients |
Back (Definition) Any of the three chemical elements required by plants in large amount Nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium |
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Micronutrients |
Nutrients required by organisms in small quantities to orchestrate a range of physiological functions |
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Habitat fragmentation |
Species that survive in habitat remnants are confronted with a modified environment of reduced area, increased isolation and novel ecological boundaries |
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Endemism |
A species or other taxonomic group is restricted to a particular geographic region, owing to factors such as isolation or response to soil or climatic conditions |
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Mauritius Kestrel |
A small falcon live in the island of Mauritius in the western Indian ocean |
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Lepidoptera |
An order of insect that includes moths and butterflies |
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Biogeography |
The study of the distribution of species and ecosystems in geographic space and through geological time |
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Phytogeography |
Branch of biogeography that concerned with the geographic distribution of plant species and their influence on earth surface |
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Phytogeography |
Branch of biogeography that concerned with the geographic distribution of plant species and their influence on earth surface |
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Island biogeography |
Field within biogeography that examine the factors that affect the species richness of isolated natural communities |
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Species area relationship |
Along a gradient of ecosystems of increasing size, the numbers of species in the ecosystem increase |
