Chapter 13- Preserving and Restoring Nature
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- Wilderness
- An area of undeveloped land affected primarily by the forces of nature
- Poachers
- Those who hunt wildlife illegally
- Corridors
- A strip of natural habitat that connects two adjacent nature preserves to allow migration of organisms from one place to another
- Rehabilitation
- To rebuild elements of structure or function in an ecological system without necessarily achieving complete restoration to its original condition
- Man and Biosphere (MAB) program
- A design for nature preserves that divides protected areas into zones with different purposes. A highly protected core is surrounded by a buffer zone and peripheral regions in which multiple-use resource harvesting is permitted
- Floodplains
- Low lands along riverbanks, lakes, and coastlines subjected to periodic inundation
- Inholdings
- Private lands within public parks, forests, or wildlife refuges
- Wildlife refuges
- Areas set aside to shelter, feed, and protect wildlife
- Restoration ecology
- Seeks to repair or reconstruct ecosystems damaged by human actions
- Biogeographical area
- An entire self-contained natural ecosystem and its associated land, water, air and wildlife resources
- World conservation strategy
- A proposal for maintaining essential ecological processes, preserving genetic diversity, and ensuring that utilization of species and ecosystems is sustainable
- Remediation
- Cleaning up chemical contaminants from a polluted area
- Landscape ecology
- The study of the reciprocal effects of spatial pattern on ecological processes. A study of the ways in which landscape history shapes the features of the land and the organisms that inhabit it as well as our reaction to, and interpretation of, the land
- Ecosystem management
- An integration of ecological, economic, and social goals in a unified systems approach to resource management
- Re-creation
- Construction of an entirely new biological community to replace one that has been destroyed on that or another side
- Wetland mitigation
- Replacing a wetland damaged by development with a new or refurbished wetland
- Restoration
- To bring something back to a former condition. Ecological restoration involves active manipulation of nature to re-create conditions that existed before human disturbance
- Reclamation
- Chemical, biological, or physical cleanup and reconstruction of severely contaminated or degraded sites to return them to something like their original topography and vegetation