ERS 211 Chapter Notes - Chapter 0: Biocoenosis, Paleoecology, Ecological Engineering

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Environment and Resource Studies
• Course: ERS 211
• Professor: Steve Murphy

Document Summary

May not full recover to it"s former state: interest in this is growing rapidly worldwide. Ecosystem: contains biota in an area, the environment that sustains it, and their interactions. Biotic: living things; the population of species that form a biota is the biotic community. Landscape: contains a mosaic of two or more ecosystems that have an exchange with one another (i. e. organisms, energy, water, nutrients). Cultural landscape: developed under natural and human based processes. Sustainable cultural practices: traditional land uses that maintain biodiversity and productivity. Destroyed: when degradation and/or damage removes all microscopic life and commonly ruins the physical environment as well. Reference ecosystem: serve as a model for planning an ecological restoration project and later in evaluations. Species redundancy: presence of multiple species playing similar roles in ecosystems. Genetic fitness: gene pool contains diversity that may be selected in response to environmental change.