Unit 8 Reading Study Guide
Focus on the following concepts in this weeks reading.
Chapter 15
- Extinction
- Habitat destruction and fragmentation
- Ecological islands
- Critical population size
- Genetic diversity
- Tellico dam vs. snail darter controversy
- Loss of wetlands
- Commercial hunting
- Alien species
- Specialists vs. generalists
- Habitat protection and restoration
- Keystone species
- Endangered Species Act
Chapter 16
- Wildlife management
- Habitat
- Migration
- Developing habitat on the farm
- Early-successional species vs. climax-associated species
- Managing habitat for waterfowl
- Controlling the harvest of game populations
- Florida Everglades
- Flyways
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