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Uni Stu 13B
FINAL-Important Terms
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Name some decomposers. | long-horned beetles, bark beetle, woodpecker, carpenter ant, termite, dry rot fungus, and mushrooms. |
| Cultural services | non-material benefits obtained from organisms and ecosystems (both anthropogenic and non-anthropogenic) |
| Ecosystem services | benefits we obtain from wild plants, animals, fungi and micro-organisms |
| Provisioning services | any type of benefit to people that can be extracted from nature - food resources, genetic resources, natural products |
| Serial depletion | the discovery of large populations of target species, the development of intensive hunting leading to extermination or depletion |
| Marine Mammal Protection Act of 1972 | doesn't permit species populations to dip below sustainable population level |
| Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Flora and Fauna (CITES) | ensure that trade will not cause the extinction of plant or animal species |
| Commercial extinction | A commercially extinct species is no longer economically feasible to harvest |
| Maximum Sustainable Yield (MSY) | idea that for a given amount of effort the catch is at a maximum and fishing beyond this point is unsustainable - not true |
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