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Question 1

Immobilised

Answer 1

Made (relatively) unavailable to biological activity

Question 2

Independent variable

Answer 2

A variable that is manipulated by an experiment and/or varies naturally, but does not change with other variables within a study. One or more independent variables can be used in a regression analysis.

Question 3

Individual based model

Answer 3

A type of DGVM in which the basic variables are representative individual plants from each functional type.

Question 4

Infiltration

Answer 4

The process by which surface water enters soil or a rock

Question 5

Insolation

Answer 5

Incoming solar radiation that reaches the earth and its atmosphere.

Question 6

Integration (for a climate model)

Answer 6

Similar to run or simulation. The process of producing a model prediction.

Question 7

Intermediate disturbance hypothesis.

Answer 7

The idea that certain minimum levels of disturbance are necessary to prevent a habitat being dominated by one or a few long lived species and to permit high species richness to occur.

Question 8

Invasive species

Answer 8

Introduced species which adversely affect the habitats they invade, economically, environmentally or ecologically.

Question 9

Island theory of species diversity

Answer 9

An idea that predicts a positive correlation between patch area and species richness, devised by MacArthur and Wilson in 1960s.