Glossary
Avian Species: noun; of, relating to, or derived from birds.
Biodiversity: noun; the variety of life in the world or in a particular habitat or ecosystem.
Biome: noun; a large naturally occurring community of flora and fauna occupying a major habitat, e.g. forest or tundra.
Broods: noun; a family of young animals, esp. of a bird, produced at one hatching or birth.
Bioaccumulation: noun; an increase in the concentration of a chemical in specific organs or tissues at a level higher than would normally be expected.
HIPPCO: (habitat destruction, invasive species, population growth, pollution, climate change, and over exploitation) describes the main factors leading to a decrease in biodiversity.
Ecological niche: noun; total way of life or role of a species in an ecosystem. It includes all physical, chemical, and biological conditions that a species needs to live and reproduce in an ecosystem.
Ecosystem services: noun;natural services or natural capital that support life on earth and are essential to the quality of human life and the functioning of the world’s economies.
Endemic species: noun;species that are found in only one area. Such species are especially vulnerable to extinction.
Economic growth: noun; increase in the capacity to provide people with goods and services; an increase in gross domestic product (GDP).
Environmental law: noun; a body of laws and treaties that broadly define what is acceptable environmental behaviors for individuals, groups, businesses, and nations.
Environmental resistance: noun; all of the limiting factors that act together to limit the growth of a population.
Endangered species: noun; wild species with so few individual survivors that the species could soon become extinct in all or most of its natural range.
Extinction: noun; complete disappearance of a species from the earth. It happens when a species cannot adapt and successfully reproduce under new environmental conditions or when a species evolves into one or more new species.
Flock: noun; a number of birds of one kind feeding, resting, or traveling together.
Frugivore: noun; an animal that thrives mostly on raw fruits or succulent fruit-like produce of plants such as roots, shoots, nuts and seeds.
Gene pool: noun; sum total of all genes found in the individuals of the population of a particular species.
Generalist: noun; a species able to thrive in a wide variety of environmental conditions and can make use of a wide variety of different resources.
Genetic Diversity: noun; Variability in the genetic makeup among individuals within a single species.
Genetic adaptation: noun; changes in the genetic makeup of organisms of a species that allow the species to reproduce and gain a competitive advantage under changed environmental conditions.
Invasive Species: noun; an introduced organism that becomes overpopulated and negatively alters its new environment.
Life Expectancy: noun; average number of years a newborn infant can expect to live.
Persistence: noun; Ability of a living system such as a grassland of forest to survive moderate disturbances.
Pollination:noun; the transfer of pollen to a stigma, ovule, flower, or plant to allow fertilization.
Restricted range: noun; species with limited ranges are often vulnerable to habitat destruction.
Stoat: noun; a small carnivorous mammal of the weasel family which has chestnut fur with white underparts and a black-tipped tail. It is native to both Eurasia and North America and in northern areas the coat turns white in winter.
1080: noun; Sodium fluoroacetate is an organofluorine chemical compound with the formula FCH₂CO₂Na. This colourless salt has a taste similar to that of sodium chloride and is used as a metabolic poison.
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