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| Conservation Biology | Goal-oriented science that seeks to counter biodiversity crisis |
| Biodiversity Crisis | The current rapid decrease in Earth's great variety of life |
| Endangered Species | in danger of extinction throughout all or a significant portion of its range |
| Threatened Species | Those likely to become endangered in the foreseeable future |
| Ecosystem services | encompass all the processes through which natural ecosystems and the species they contain help sustain human life on earth |
| introduced species | humans move a soecies from their native locations to a new area |
| small population approach | study the processes which can cause very small populations to become extinct |
| extinction vortex | a downward spiral unique to small population where the population becomes smaller and smaller untill there are no more individuals |
| minimum viable population size (MVP) | at some mimimun population size, rare species will be able to sustain their numbers and survive |
| effective population size | the breeding potential for a population |
| population vuability analysis (PVA) | Makes a reasonable prediction of a populations chance of survival |
| declining population approach | proactive, conservation strategy for detecting, diagnosing, and halting polulation declines |
| landscape | regional assemblage of interacting ecosystems |
| landscape ecology | application of ecological principles to study use of human land use patterns |
| movement corridor | a norrow stip or small clumps of quality habitat connecting otherwise isolated patches |
| biodiversity hot spot | relativly small area with an exeptional concentration of endemic species and a large number of endangered or threatened species |
| zoned reserve | extensive region of land that includes one or more areas undisturbed by human activity and are used for economic gain |
| restoration ecology | applies ecological pinciples in an effort to return degraded ecosystems to conditions as similar as possible to their natural, predegraded state |
| biomediation | use of living organisms, usually prokaryotes, fungi, or plants, to detoxify polluted ecosystems |
| adaptive managment | use of experimental method in trying to solve promising types of management to find out what works best |
| sustainable biosphere initiative | defines and acquires the basic ecological information neccesarry for the inteligent and responsible development, management, and conservation of Earths recources |
