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87 Cards in this Set
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biota
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All living organisms
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endothermic
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warm blooded
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ectothermic
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cold-blooded
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abundance
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a quantitative measure of a resource (usually biomass or # per unit area)
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ecology
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the study of the interrelationships of organisms with other organisms and the environment
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Pittman-Johnson
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tax on arms and ammunition available only if the state uses it liscense sales for wildlife management
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Dingell-Johnson
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fish
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survey
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portion
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census
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entire population
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beliefs
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perceptions (cognitive)
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values
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preferred outcomes
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Likert
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strongly agree strongly disagree
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Semantic
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give traits and number
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Rank
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ex...1-5
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Frequency
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How likely-unlikely
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Checklist
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Not likely/like
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Magnititude
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distribute points
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Natural Resources
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Useful and valuable in context its found
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Ethics
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Standards of conduct
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Morals
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Personal standards of conduct
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Conservation
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effective use and management
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Preservation
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Leaving things the way they are
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Animal Rights
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Equal to humans
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Animal Welfare
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humane treatment
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Optimal Sustainable Yield
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A management philosophy that considers economic and socioeconomic factors
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Maximum Sustainable Yield
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The max amount of biomass that can be theoretically harvested without affecting future harvests
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Creel/Bag Limit
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The number of fish/wildlife species that a person may legally catch or harvest in one day
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Ecosystem
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biotic and abiotic components
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Primary Succession
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Unchanged by living organisms
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Secondary Succession
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Previously occupied by organism
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Ecosystem
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biotic and abiotic components (has structure and function-components and interacting ways)
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Productivity
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rate at which energy is captured and stored
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Biomes
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major terrestrial communities ecosystems
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Ecoregions
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System for classification and mapping of ecologically similar systems
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Biotic Community
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Living portion
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Biodiversity
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The variety and variability among living organisms and all the ecological complexes in which they occur
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Population
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All of the individials in a specific area at a specific time
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Biogeochemical Cycle
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Cycling of an essential nutrient through the ecosystem
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Autotroph
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Produces own food
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Heterotroph
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Feed on others
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Conservation
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effective use and management
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Preservation
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Leaving things the way they are
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Animal Rights
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Equal to humans
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Animal Welfare
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humane treatment
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Optimal Sustainable Yield
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A management philosophy that considers economic and socioeconomic factors
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Maximum Sustainable Yield
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The max amount of biomass that can be theoretically harvested without affecting future harvests
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Creel/Bag Limit
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The number of fish/wildlife species that a person may legally catch or harvest in one day
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Ecosystem
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biotic and abiotic components
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Primary Succession
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Unchanged by living organisms
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Secondary Succession
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Previously occupied by organism
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habitat
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the specific set of environmental conditions which an individual, species, or community lives
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environment
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total surroundings including biotic and abiotic
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exotic
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an organism introduced from a different zoogeographical regions
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transplant
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outside native, same zoogeographic
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naturalized
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a naturally occuring organism produced from exotic/transplant
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sexual segregation
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different use of space by genders in same species
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exploitative
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divide resources somewhat equally (and all suffer similar affects)
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contest
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one competes better for a resource at expense of others
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Competitive Exclusion Principle (Gause)
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no two species can occupy the same niche
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Home range
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The area within which an animal normally travels in its daily activites
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territory
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home range that an animal defends
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Limiting factor
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A single environmental component that limits population growth
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Law of Tolerance
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The principle that the abscense or failure of an organism in a particular habitat that is controlled by qualitative or quantitative defficiency or excess with respect to any one of several factors that may approach the limits of tolerance for that organism
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Connectivity
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Continuity of a habitat or vegetation within a landscape
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Patch
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a continuous nonlineeear area within a landscape that differs from surrounding areas `
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Cooridors
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A narrow strip of land that differs (usually interms of dominany vegetation from surrounding areas
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Ecotone
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transtitional area between 2 different organism
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Generalist
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an organism that uses a wide variety of habitats/resources
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Specialists
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an organism that uses only a particular resource
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Population Dynamics
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The study of the changes in the numbers of organisms in populations and factors
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Population Structure
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size, structure, or sex ratio of a population
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natality
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birthrate
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recruitment
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reach a particular size
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k-selected
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one offspring, a lot of parental care
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r-selected
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lots o babies
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j curve
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when a population is in a new and favorable environment
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S curve
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when limiting
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upland game
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mostly birds and small mammals recreational hunting
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natural mortality
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deaad by natural causes
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harvested mortality
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deaad by hunting etc...
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Carrying capacity
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the maximum biomass of a population that can be sustained within a defined area throughout a specific period of time
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Standing stock
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current stock
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biotic potential
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max rate of population under ideal conditions
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environmental resistance
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environmental factors that limit
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yield
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% of production taken by humans
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gear
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equipment for sampling
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sample
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represents subset
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