BIOL 1070 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Mineral Lick, Woodlot, Grid North
14 Apr 2016
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The campus master plan a vison for the uni campus, vision stretched over. 50 years, the needs of the campus (transportation, how the its presented to the campus) Want to maintain them & also increase capacity. There will be development , but keep away from natural areas so itdoesnt interfere with the natural enviro. Identifies distances or barriers that need to put in place to maintain natural area. Forest fragments have a long history of study - in particular how there is a difference between the quality of habitat between interior habitat and habitat closer to the edge. There was a particularly useful review of the principal effects that an edge has on forests published in 2004 (ries et al (2004) ecological responses to habitat. Abiotic factors: there is differential movement of solar radiation, temperature, humidity, moisture, and wind between interior and edge habitat.
