Biodiversity: Benefits & Preservation

Question 1

resistance

Answer 1

measure of how much a community is affected by a disturbance

Question 2

resilience

Answer 2

measure of how quickly a community recovers following a disturbance

Question 3

natural experiment

Answer 3

situation where a natural change in conditions enables comparisons of groups, rather than a manipulation of conditions by researchers

Question 4

ecosystem service

Answer 4

all benefits that humans derive, directly or indirectly, from ecosystem functions

Question 5

bioprospecting

Answer 5

effort to find commercially useful compounds by studying orgs—esp. species that are poorly studied to date

Question 6

sustainability

Answer 6

planned used of environmental resources @ a rate no faster than rate @ which they are naturally replaced

Question 7

seed bank

Answer 7

repository where seeds, representing many different varieties of domestic crops or other species, are preserved

Question 8

ex situ conservation

Answer 8

preserving species outside of natural areas

(ie) zoo, aquaria, or botanical gardens

Question 9

wildlife corridor

Answer 9

strips of wildlife habitat connecting populations that otherwise would be isolated by human-made development

Question 10

ecotourism

Answer 10

tourism based on observing wildlife or experiencing other aspects of natural areas