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| Extensive range, broad tolerance, large populations |
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| restricted to certain geographic region |
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| nutrient pollution cause algal blooms and anoxic zones |
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| remnants of ancient lineages (Mantella frogs) (Madagascar rosy periwinkle) |
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| introduce new genes to bolster genetic diversity |
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| ride on fish gills and fins in order to disperse |
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| International Union for the Conservation of Nature |
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| Extinct in wild within native range |
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| Extremely high risk of extinct in wild |
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| Very high risk extinction in wild |
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| Element of Occurrence records |
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| critically imperiled with 5 or fewer occurrences |
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| Imperiled with 6-20 occurrence or a factor making species vulnerable to extinction |
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| Top 4 most vulenerable groups |
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| Habitat destruction, habitat fragmentation, habitat degradation, global climate change |
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| 4 major threats to extinction |
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| -6.7, lowest of all major countries |
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| #1 threat current threat to species |
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| habitat loss and degradation |
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| Tropical rain forest percentages |
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| block large enough to support biodiversity |
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| Contains 20% of ecuador's oil and won't develop long as 350 million is given per year |
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| Tropical trees in shallow saltwater |
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| Fishing by using dynamite |
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| Capture fish for aquarium trade or live food for oriental markets |
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| disrupts 150 times more seafloor than forests cleared per year |
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| Converts dry communities to desert like condiitons |
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| Large continuous habitat divided into pieces |
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| altered habitat at fragment margin |
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| Lays eggs nests>100 birds (Ex brown-headed parasite) |
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| 80% US lower 48 within 1KM of road |
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| Limits Dispersal, Restricts access to food/mates, Makes populations smaller, reduces gene flow, |
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| Effects of Roads and fragmentation (4) |
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| Increase turbidity hurting habitats |
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| Concentration causing mortality |
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| Lethal Concentration that kills 50% of population |
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| interfere with hormones and endocrine systems |
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| Pollutant prevents reception of sensory informations |
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| pH<5 caused by Nitrogen and Sulfur pollution |
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| Pack ice organisms, listed threatened 2008 |
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| Permanently frozen soil layers |
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| Trees tilting and falling due to global climates change melting ice |
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| Rising oceans due to ice melt |
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| #1 future extinction threat |
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| Point at where acceleration greatly increases |
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| Country producing most CO2 total, (US does per capita) |
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| Scales carbon output to economy size |
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| Unsustainable harvesting (Atlantic cod) |
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| Maximum sustainable yield |
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| Greatest amount of resource to be harvested without damage |
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r= rmax B=maximum biomass habitat can support |
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| Maximum sustainable yield equation |
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| outside natural range due to human activities |
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| exotic species that increases in non native areas at expense to native species |
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| When removal of invasives is impossible |
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| Brought North American comb jelly to Black sea, now 95% of biomass in black sea |
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| Parasitic fly introduced to attack gypsy moth, instead attacked native moth species and caused declines |
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| Invasive species that invaded lake erie and caused declines in fish populations |
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| Invasive species that kill species as well as encrust onto water intake pipes causing 3.1 billion in cleaning in the next 10 years |
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| Herbicide ballistic technology |
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| Using herbicide paintballs to kill invasives |
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| Traits match human disturbance |
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| Species escape predators, diseases, and competition |
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| Invasives evolve to survive |
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| Debilitating condition of body |
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| Agents that transmit disease |
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| % infected individuals of # parasites/individual |
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| exotic parasite shared with native host |
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| native parasite boosted by exotic host |
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| Minimum viable population |
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| Smallest population that will survive long term |
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| Federally endangered, recovery established new populations in the gila river. New mexico moved to de-list species |
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| species first describes from specimen collected there |
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| area of habitat need by MVP |
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| Verts- 500-5000 individuals, Inverts and plants-10,000 individuals |
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| Chance elimination rare alleles |
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| Extinct 2 mya, 2 small stands found 1994, 40 plants |
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| Isolated populations need at least 50 individuals to maintain genetic diversity |
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| provides alleles valuable in future |
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| Loss of vigor when mating with close relative |
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| mating with distant relative results in loss of vigor |
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| Normalley 1/10,000 to 1/1,000,000 per gene/generation |
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| Effective population size (N_e) |
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| Lowest amount of breeding individuals to constitute future genetic diversity |
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| Effective population size equation |
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| Difference due to chance makeup establishing individuals |
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| Plant species that must breed with another individual of different genotype |
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| Social structure requires minimum population size due to hunting or mating |
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| First listed marine invertebrate |
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| Once population size low, extinction chance accelerates |
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| estimate part habitat and extrapolate |
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| determine rates of growth, reproduction, and survival |
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| Population Viability Analysis |
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| Use demographic data to project trends |
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| Which parameters affect species most |
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| Group of spatially separated but interacting populations |
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| poor competitor that colonize ephemeral habitats |
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| Core population a lot of emigrants |
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| Satellite populations rely on immigration |
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| using public to gather scientific data |
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| Poop used for DNA analysis |
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| Introducing species into native range |
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| Release species in existing population to boost size and genetic diversity |
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| protecting young organisms until less vulnerable |
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| Move outside original range |
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Negatively affect local species
Damage new ecosystem
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| Turn them loose without care |
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| compensation for damage caused by development |
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| Accepting other species as their own |
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| Episodic seeding establishment |
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| Successful only occasional years |
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