Conservation Bio Midterm

Mission-oriented science focused on preserving biodiversity

What are the 3 components of biodiversity?

What is the main goal of conservation biology?

What are the different types of ecological interactions?roma

What are the three main explanations of how population growth impacts biodiversity?

Which conservation ethic arose in the mid-1800s and believed in preservation of nature for nature's sake?

Which conservation ethic arose in the early 1900s and believed in the efficient use of natural resources for the greatest good?

Which conservation ethic arose in the mid-1900s and believed in integrated systems that humans are a part of?

Who held romantic transcendental consservation ethic views?

Who held resource conservation ethic views?

Who held evolutionary-ecological land ethic values?

Biological and chemical processes needed for the survival of species/communities/ecosystems

Variety of terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems

Variety of genetic material within a species or population

Number and abundance of species present in different communities

What are the three levels of biodiversity assessment?

What are the two different components of diversity?

What does species richness indicate?

What does Simpson's diversity index indicate?

What does the Shannon-Wiener index indicate?

Which speciation process reduces gene flow between populations via geographical separation?

Which speciation process takes place in populations that occur in the same ecosystem?

What are the different types of ecosystem services?

Maximum amount of a renewable resource that can be harvested without compromising the future availability of that resource

What are the four types of economic valuation?

What three things do vulnerability assessments consider?

Physical arrangements of disturbance and habitat

Behavioral response of organisms and their ability to use their habitat

What are the four types of randomness of population viability?

Steps of the invasion process