FINAL-Important Terms
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| Name some decomposers. | long-horned beetles, bark beetle, woodpecker, carpenter ant, termite, dry rot fungus, and mushrooms.
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| Cultural services | non-material benefits obtained from organisms and
ecosystems (both anthropogenic and non-anthropogenic)
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| Ecosystem services | benefits we obtain from wild plants, animals, fungi
and micro-organisms
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| Provisioning services | any type of benefit to people that can be extracted
from nature - food resources, genetic resources, natural products
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| Serial depletion | the discovery of large populations of target species, the
development of intensive hunting leading to extermination or depletion
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| Marine Mammal Protection Act of 1972 | doesn't permit species
populations to dip below sustainable population level
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| 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
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| Commercial extinction | A commercially extinct species is no longer
economically feasible to harvest
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| 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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