ENWC201 Study Guide - Comprehensive Final Exam Guide - Wildlife, Habitat Destruction, Endangered Species

• School: University of Delaware
• Department: Entomology and Wildlife Conservation
• Course: ENWC201
• Professor: Kyle Mc Carthy

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.