✅(Keywords)(Chapter 12) Trees Flashcards
An ethical idea that prioritise humans over nature
Anthropocentrism
The total variability and variety of life forms. It is used to measure the health of an environmental system
Biodiversity
Group of plants that arise from succession overtime, determined by climatic and sol conditions
Climax vegetation
An event that disrupts an ecological system which results in:
① recovery of the system
or
② movement entering new state
Disturbance
Systems of economic relations, exchange, and ownership outside formal capitalism, including alternative markets, non-monetary labor compensation, resource sharing, and businesses that don’t aim for profit accumulation.
Diverse economies
An environmental ethic that emphasise the need of ecological concerns above human priorities
Ecocentrism
Benefits that an organic system creates including:
① food resources
② clean air or water
③ pollination
④ carbon sequestration
⑤ energy
⑥ nutrient cycling
Ecosystem services
It explains the historical process of changes in forest cover over time, typically following economic development.
It suggests that forest initially declines due to deforestation driven by agricultural expansion and resource extraction, but eventually stabilizes and may even increase as economies develop and priorities shift toward conservation and restoration.
Forest transition theory
A thesis that states as population grow, the ↑demand for food will result in technological advancement that leads in ↑food production
Induced intensification
A model that predicts economic response to scarcity of a resource will lead to increase in prices
Market response model
It aims to keep nature in its pristine condition
Preservation
When capitalists intrude to use natural resources or goods from communities
Primitive accumulation
Type of ecology focused on integrating biodiversity conservation into human-dominated landscapes and environments
Reconciliation ecology
The regrowth of vegetation and return of species to an area that was cleared or reduced by disturbance
Secondary succession
A part of the economy that relies on unpaid work, like household chores, which is hard to measure but vital for supporting the workforce and the economy.
Social reproduction
(From ecological viewpoint) The natural and gradual process by which ecosystems change and develop over time
Succession
