Questions and CORRECT Answers
wildlife - CORRECT ANSWER - all free living animals
fisheries - CORRECT ANSWER - system that includes the fish, habitat, and human users
Management - CORRECT ANSWER - the manipulation of a population or habitat to
achieve a specific goal including:
making a pop size greater/smaller
harvest population for continuing yield
leave it alone, protect, monitor
2 types of wildlife management - CORRECT ANSWER - manipulative and custodial
manipulative management - CORRECT ANSWER - active managers - acts on population
by directly influencing
custodial management - CORRECT ANSWER - passive (preventative/protective)
what issue underlies just about all environmental problems? - CORRECT ANSWER -
population
ecosystem management - CORRECT ANSWER - a relatively new and hopefully more
comprehensive/holistic approach to conservation of biodiversity - a development that has put
government agencies (local and federal) and non governmental agencies (The Nature
Conservancy) on the same page
, adaptive resource management - CORRECT ANSWER - approach is more flexible to
unanticipated and complex outcomes - an approach of continual reassessment and innovation
origins of community ecology - CORRECT ANSWER - stephen forbes - first chief of the
illinois natural history survey - concerned with relationship between organisms and environment
niche - CORRECT ANSWER - species can coexist because they use different aspects of
same resource
predation - CORRECT ANSWER - individuals of one species kill another
parasitism - CORRECT ANSWER - not same as predation - doesn't necessarily kill you
conservation - CORRECT ANSWER - The sustainable management of a natural resource
preservation - CORRECT ANSWER - leaving natural systems as they are
population - CORRECT ANSWER - A group of individuals that belong to the same
species and live in the same area
population ecologists study - CORRECT ANSWER - rate and form populations
grow/decline, variation in abundance over time and space, sources of variation growth
photic zone - CORRECT ANSWER - Portion of the marine biome that is shallow enough
for sunlight to penetrate. photosynthesis is greater than respiration
Epilimnion - CORRECT ANSWER - An upper layer of warm water with high levels of
dissolved oxygen