Exam 24: Landscape Ecology and Ecosystem Management

Which statement about Madagascar is false?

A landscape is an area that must be

The composite of heterogeneous elements of a landscape is known as a(n)

Which of the following is not a predicted result from the doubling of the atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide in Yellowstone National Park?

Assuming all other factors are equal, which statement about the success of core natural areas as a conservation measure is false?

Janzen's work converting pasturelands to tropical dry forest is an example of

Refer to the figure. The figure shows the extent of different edge effects in Amazon rainforest fragments. -Suppose a forest fragment is 600 m × 600 m. What fraction of the fragment would experience decreased relative humidity?

Refer to the figure. The figure shows the persistence of edge effects in Amazon rainforest fragments. Suppose a forest fragment is 500 m × 500 m. What fraction of the fragment would experience decreased relative humidity due to edge effects?

Terborgh and colleagues' studies showed that _______ were more abundant on the small and medium-sized islands in Lago Guri in Venezuela than in the remaining intact forest.

Refer to the figures. Figure 1 Figure 2 Figure 4 You are working with a town to develop a conservation strategy for parks (tracts) of protected land in a suburban area (parks A-G). These seven areas are depicted in Figure 1. Each square in the grid indicates an area of 1 km². - Refer to Figure 1 to familiarize yourself with the key aspects of the protected areas. Suppose you are the park manager in this area, and you have the option to build a limited number of habitat corridors to connect different parks to one another and reconnect the populations of birds that have been isolated from one another by the 1 km edge effect. However, your budget is limited. What is the minimum number of habitat corridors that would be required to reconnect the isolated populations of birds you (see Figure 4)? Where would you create these corridors, and why? On Figure 2, indicate the areas you would choose to create habitat corridors (this will be referred to as Figure 5).

The recovery of the wolf in the upper Midwest regions of Minnesota, Wisconsin, and the Upper Peninsula of Michigan during the 1990s and 2000s was such a success, the idea of allowing the hunting of grey wolves has been considered in order to reduce depredations. Such a decision is an example of