QUESTION 1

1. This technological tool used by ecologists can be employed to determine deforestation rates across the world.

Global positioning system

Geographic information system

Remote sensing

Mapquest

QUESTION 2

1. Habitat fragmentation can cause abiotic changes in landscape patches. Which of the following is NOT an abiotic factor?

Radiation flux

Water flux

Wind

Disease outbreak

QUESTION 3

1. Which of the following practices would not be used to restore longleaf pine savanna in the American South?

Prescribed fire

Controlled grazing by cattle

Planting line seedlings in low densities at the restoration site

Thinning the forest canopy to create open conditions

QUESTION 4

1. The Curtis Prairie at the University of Wisconsin was an early successful restoration project for tallgrass prairie. Which of the following restoration treatments was not employed at Curtis Prairie?

Removal of undesirable herbaceous and woody plants

Prescribed fire

Planting and seedling of native species

Grazing by American bison

QUESTION 5

1. Forest thinning is done in a conservation area to provide open habitat for a particular plant species. The timber is sold to the highest bidder. What type of ecological service would this action be?

Provisioning services

Regulation services

Cultural services

Habitat services

QUESTION 6

1. Match the term to the description.

Longleaf pine

Tallgrass prairie

Ovenbird

Catbird

Cougar

A.

A species best preserved at the landscape scale.

B.

Needs prescribed fire for restoration.

C.

A forest interior species rare in fragmented landscapes.

D.

An edge species common in fragmented landscapes.

E.

Once covered over 120 million acres from Texas to Canada.

F.

Occurs in local peat moss-dominated forested wetlands