Flashcards in Biodiversity: Benefits & Preservation Deck (10)
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resistance
measure of how much a community is affected by a disturbance
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resilience
measure of how quickly a community recovers following a disturbance
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natural experiment
situation where a natural change in conditions enables comparisons of groups, rather than a manipulation of conditions by researchers
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ecosystem service
all benefits that humans derive, directly or indirectly, from ecosystem functions
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bioprospecting
effort to find commercially useful compounds by studying orgs—esp. species that are poorly studied to date
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sustainability
planned used of environmental resources @ a rate no faster than rate @ which they are naturally replaced
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seed bank
repository where seeds, representing many different varieties of domestic crops or other species, are preserved
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ex situ conservation
preserving species outside of natural areas
(ie) zoo, aquaria, or botanical gardens
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wildlife corridor
strips of wildlife habitat connecting populations that otherwise would be isolated by human-made development
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