Study Questions
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- Not all questions can be asked on an exam
- While questions on an exam will test your knowledge of many of these topics, the actual exam questions will often be framed/asked in different ways
- This is not all possible topics and questions
- Some of these questions and topics may not be covered on a particular exam because we did not make it through all the material prior to the exam
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1. What is habitat
2. What are habitat components, conditions, and resources
3. How does habitat relate to carrying capacity
4. How is the relationship among soils, habitat, and wildlife food resources
5. What is the difference between starvation and malnutrition, and which are herbivores more concerned with
6. Describe nutrition effects on wildlife reproduction
7. How can wildlife food use affect habitat
8. What’s the difference between food use, availability, and selection
9. How can food use be deceiving in terms of management
10. What should we consider when thinking about food availability
11. What are sources of water for wildlife
12. What are some wildlife responses to water deprivation
13. What is cover
14. What are some types and functions of cover
15. Structure or species – which is most important to wildlife cover
16. What is the difference between cover and habitat
17. What is an ecological trap
18. What is a home range and how does it help us understand wildlife-habitat relationships
19. What affects wildlife space requirements
20. What is interspersion in relation to wildlife habitat
21. What is vertical habitat diversity and how does it affect wildlife
22. Define edge and it’s types
23. How does edge affect wildlife
24. What is the difference between and edge and an ecotone
25. What is an edge effect
26. Define habitat selection
27. How does understanding habitat selection help us as wildlife habitat managers; provide a specific example
28. What re the orders or levels of wildlife habitat selection; provide examples
29. Why can density be a misleading indicator of habitat quality
30. What is the difference between preferred, staple, emergency, and stuffers with regard to wildlife foods
31. What is a brush pile and how might wildlife use one
32. What is succession and how does it affect habitat
33. What is the importance to dead wood to wildlife habitat
34. Why are “limiting factors like holes in a keg filled with water”
35. What are some negative factors associated with edge
36. What are interior species
37. What is habitat management
38. What is the difference between habitat management and habitat restoration
39. What is a landscape
40. What affects do exotic species and climate change have on habitat management
41. When is population management a form of habitat management
42. What are the types of succession
43. Define xerarch and hydrarch
44. What is retrogression and how do managers use it
45. What are factors affecting succession
46. How would habitat management prescriptions differ for climax-adapted species, species adapted to early stages of succession, and species requiring a mixture of seres
47. What are area sensitive species and how would you adapt habitat management for them
48. What is fragmentation and how does it affect habitat and species
49. What are the types of fragmentation and how does each effect wildlife
50. What are the spatial and species effects of fragmentation
51. How might we mitigate or compensate for climate change effects on wildlife habitat
52. For what degree of naturalness should we manage for
53. What should our level of intervention be when managing habitat
54. What are cultural habitats
55. Do we know what the natural or pristine state of most ecosystems is
56. Should we manage habitat for single species or suites of species
57. Describe a habitat management example with increasingly more intensive intervention
58. What is ecosystem management and how does it differ from habitat management
59. What dominant themes should be part of ecosystem management programs
60. Describe Donlan's plan to rewild North America, and how it relates to levels of intervention and ecosystem management
61. What is a habitat management plan
62. Why have a management plan
63. What sections comprise a good habitat management plan
64. What is adaptive management
65. What goes in each section of a management plan
66. What is SMART
67. What are ends and means objectives and how do they help us as habitat managers