| A | B |
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| territory | the area an animal defends against other members of its species |
| home range | the area an animal roams through often not defended. The area supplies the necessary habitat requirements |
| habitat | an environment that supplies everything wildlife needs: food, water, cover, space and arrangement |
| mast | fruits and nuts used by wildlife as a food source |
| hard mast | fruits or nuts of trees such as oaks, beech, walnut, chinquapin, and hickories |
| soft mast | fruits and berries o plants such as dogwood, elderberry, grape, huckleberry, raspberry and blackberry |
| forb | any herbaceous plant other than grasses or grass-like plants |
| browse | edible twigs, shoots, leaves, and buds of woody plants; often used to describe deer foods |
| herbaceous | soft stemmed plants |
| forage | all browse and herbaceous plant foods that are available to animals |
| habitat | food, water, shelter/cover, space arrangement |
| habitat fragmentation | the breaing up of habitat into smaller area |
| carrying capacity | the number of wildlife a habitat can support |
| limiting factors | usually food, water, shelter, space, disease, perdition, climate, population, hunting, poaching... when one + exceedsthe limit of tolerance the population of animals are "limited" to the numbers they can reach |
| carrying capacity is influenced by: | limiting factors |
| red eft is the adult of: | the red spotted newt (larval stage of eft) |
| neotropical migratory birds | winter in Central America and So. America but migrate to No. America to breed and raise their young |
| corridors | areas of undisturbed land or other passageways that allow wildlife to get from one area of their habitat to another |
| generalist | animals that can live in many different habitats and in close association with people |
| specialist | organisms that require a very specialized or specific habitat |
| ex. of generalist | raccoon, squirrel, mice, opossum, skunk, coyotes, deer... |
| ex. of specialist | red-cockaded woodpecker, hellbender, Neuse River waterdog, bog turtle... |
| ecotones (or edgese) | transition zones where two or more habitats meet and combine providing a greater variety of foods and niches to a greater variety of species |
| biodiversity | the variety of speces in an ecosystem |
| edge effect | animals from each ommunity; a greater number of each species and a greatervariety of species found at edges or ecotones |
| interior species | some species require large expanses of the same type of habitat. These animals do NOT benefit from edges |
