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ENVIRO VOCAB
Term | Definition |
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riparian areas | |
water cycle | |
watershed | |
stream order | |
diivide | |
groundwater discharge / recharge | |
uplands | |
sewage | |
point-source pollution | |
non-point source pollution | |
fecal coliforms | |
B.O.D. | |
preliminary sewage treatment | |
primary sewage treatment | |
secondary sewage treatment | |
tertiary sewage treatment | |
monitoring | |
field experiments | |
baseline data | |
reference site | |
treatment site / treatment | |
biodiversity (3 kinds) | |
habitat | |
biome | |
biotic | |
abiotic | |
ecosystem | |
species richness | |
species evenness | |
Simpson's Index of Diversity | |
keystone species | |
invasive / exotic species | |
chemical control | |
mechanical control | |
biological control | |
canopy | |
understory | |
forest floor | |
anatomy of trees | crown, trunk, roots |
5 layers of wood | outer bark phloem / inner bark cambium layer xylem / sapwood heartwood |
springwood | |
summerwood | |
annual ring | |
increment borer | |
DBH / DBH tape | |
clinometer | |
crown class | |
fixed plot | |
variable plot | |
basal area (calculation) | |
BAF prism | |
"in trees" and "borderline trees" | |
stocking standard | |
slope (chained) distance | |
horizontal distance | |
survey techniques / terms: random sampling | |
survey techniques / terms: baseline | |
survey techniques / terms: transect | |
survey techniques / terms: quadrat | |
survey techniques / terms: population | |
survey techniques / terms: percent cover survey | |
5 wetland classes | |
hydric soils | |
hydrophytic plants | |
hydrology | |
water quality assessment pollution tolerant vs. pollution intolerant | |
CPOM | |
FPOM | |
functional feeding groups (4) |