ENWC201 Study Guide - Spring 2018, Comprehensive Midterm Notes - Wildlife, Habitat Destruction, Endangered Species
12 Oct 2018
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ENWC201
MIDTERM EXAM
STUDY GUIDE
Fall 2018
ENWC201: Lecture 1
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• Wildlife
o Birds and mammals, including amphibians
o Insects, arthropods, fish, plants
▪ Alive and not domesticated
o Actual definition: wildlife includes all nondomesticated plants,
animals and other organisms
o Or: living things and especially mammals, birds, and fishes that
are neither human nor domesticated
• Conservation:
o Want to move away from the term preservation
o Coined by Gifford Pinchot- 1907
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o Want to use the resources and use them into the future
▪ Came from the word conservator- together guard
▪ is an ethic of resource use, allocation, and protection. Its
primary focus is upon maintaining the health of the
natural world: its, fisheries, habitats, and biological
diversity.
• Ecology:
o Ernst Haeckel- 1866
▪ Eco- oikos- home
▪ Logy- logos- study
▪ Ecology= home study
▪ is the scientific study of the distributions, abundance and
relations of organisms and their interactions with the
environment
• Wildlife Biologist:
o Snow leopard- causes of loss
▪ Retribution killing
▪ Loss of natural prey
▪ Poaching for hides and bones
▪ Live capture and sale of cubs
o Measuring success:
▪ Population estimates
▪ Trend in snow leopard numbers
▪ Compare across areas
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Document Summary
Intraspecific competition: competition between members of the same species. Interior forest for nesting: forest and forest edge, conifers preferred, songbird, other small species, greater roadrunner, desert/shrub montane, cactus low shrubs and thorny trees, plant materials (water for adults) Insects, snakes and lizards: willow ptarmigan, up in northern latitudes (northern pole, tundra, alder and willow thickets. Snow banks: rivers, snow melt, rocks, fallen logs, brush flowers, buds and twigs, habitat types, forest, tundra, desert, wetland, steppe, different biomes. Lecture 8: biodiversity: biodiversity, the diversity of genes, species and ecosystems in a region, hierarchy, genetic, species, ecosystem, genetic diversity, the number of different kinds of genes in a population or species, population size, small versus large, mutations. Lecture 9: history of wildlife in north america: before man, slow reproducing animals, large jaguars, very large species megafauna. Increased national awareness: endangered species act, earth day 1970, acts, safe drinking water act, clean water act, clean air act , era of conservation biology.
