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WFC 10- From Lecture
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Undergraduate 1
11/05/2009

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Niche Parameter (also called niche axis)
Definition

Represents quantitatively how a species uses one of the factors of its habitat

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Hibernaculum
Definition
Requirements for a successful hibernation, location where animals hibernate over winter
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Reciprocal Subsidy
Definition
When food resource A is high, another food resource B might be low, and when food resource B is high, food resource A is low
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Managing for a single species vs. whole ecosystem management
Definition

Can affect other species in that area negatively. 

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Theories that help explain why most species are in the tropics

Definition

Parental parasite theory

Productivity theory

Glacial Refuge theory

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Parental parasite theory
Definition

It is warm, so there are many parasites thus germination is reduced to live next to parent and so they are different

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Productivity theory
Definition

It is warm in the tropics, so things can reproduce easily and fast

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Glacial Refuge theory
Definition
Ice sheets in north and south wiped out species
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Reasons for Rainforest deforestation

Definition

Shifting cultivation

New roads

Cash crops

Commercial logging

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Shifting cultivation
Definition
Small scale farmers that go into the forest to create farms to support their family
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New roads
Definition
New roads are being created to easily transport goods such as soy beans, roads create a gap in the forest causing dry heat because the plants don’t hold in moisture and start fires, which dry out the forest.  Fragmentation is increased by fires
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Cash Crops
Definition
Crops grown and sold to a larger corporation that processes and distributes, in order to get money for family.  In Amazon: cocoa, soy, rubber, in Uganda: tea and coffee
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Commercial Logging
Definition

Clear cutting and selective logging occurs in Amazon and Africa, westerners are responsible for the demand of these hard woods. Slash and burn technique is used

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