Conservation Ecology Part 2 Vocab

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Taxonomists

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Biologists who catalog and describe species

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IUCN

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International Union for Conservation of Nature

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Biodiversity hotspot

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Region containing a high percentage of plant life found nowhere else on the planet, typically a target for conservation

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Minimum viable population

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Smallest population size of a species that can persist in the face of environmental variation

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Land trusts

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Privately-owned conservation areas

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Conservation easements

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Lands set aside for conservation without threat of development; usually incentivized by tax relief

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Conservation banking

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Lands where the landowner preserves an endangered species or protected lands in recompense for development elsewhere

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Extirpation

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When a species or population is regionally or locally extinct

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Megafauna

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Large, charismatic species, e.g., mammoths, camels, etc.

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Pre-Columbian

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Before 1492, benchmark for pre-European settlement of North America.