Ecosystem Management & Sustainability Practices Flashcards
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Which term describes the restoration of ecosystem services and functions on severely degraded lands, such as abandoned mine sites?
Answer: Ecological restoration
Ecological restoration actively aids the recovery of ecosystems that have been degraded, damaged, or destroyed.
The concept of 'ecosystem services' classifies the benefit of natural pollination by bees as which service type?
Answer: Regulating service
Pollination is a regulating service because it regulates biological processes (crop production) rather than directly providing material goods.
A life cycle assessment (LCA) evaluates environmental impacts:
Answer: From raw material extraction through end-of-life disposal
LCA examines all environmental impacts across a product's entire life cycle, from cradle to grave (or cradle to cradle).
Under the Clean Water Act Section 404 program, compensatory mitigation can be achieved through which mechanism?
Answer: Buying credits from an approved wetland mitigation bank
Section 404 compensatory mitigation allows permittees to purchase credits from approved mitigation banks to offset unavoidable wetland impacts.
Which fire management strategy involves intentionally burning vegetation under controlled conditions to reduce fuel loads?
Answer: Prescribed burning
Prescribed (controlled) burning deliberately uses fire under specific weather and fuel conditions to reduce accumulated fuels and restore fire-dependent ecosystems.
The Ramsar Convention specifically protects which type of ecosystem?
Answer: Wetlands of international importance
The Ramsar Convention on Wetlands (1971) is an international treaty dedicated to the conservation and sustainable use of wetlands.
In sustainable forestry, the concept of 'net annual increment' is used to determine:
Answer: The allowable annual cut without depleting growing stock
Net annual increment (NAI) represents annual forest growth and is used to set sustainable harvest levels that do not exceed growth rates.