WFC memorization

Era of protection acts

Lacey act, John Muir sierra club, US forest service act

components of the natural flow regime

magnitude, timing, frequency, duration, rate of change

primary natural and anthropogenic drivers of hydrology in Putah
Creek?

droughts, floods, natural flow regimes, dams and diversions

ecology

the study of the interactions between organisms and their environment, accounting for both biotic and abiotic factors

population

describes a specific species in a specific location

niche

the activities and relationships of an organism constrained by physiological and biological processes

weather

condition of the atmosphere at a specific time and place

climate

integration of daily and seasonal weather events over time

the system/feedback responsible for driving earth’s precipitation

Hadley cells

4 conditions of natural selection

more organisms are born than can survive, organisms vary, variation is inherited, variation causes differences in survival and reproduction

evolution

change over time of the proportions of individual organisms differing genetically in one or more traits

density independent 

Population size doesn’t matter

density dependent

Population density is impacting by the number of individuals

fire regime

the patterns of fire occurrence in an ecosystem

fire frequency

how often fires occur

fire intensity

the amount of energy/heat produced per unit of fireline

fire severity

the degree of environmental change caused by the fire

pyrodiversity

the variation across time and space in the ecological/environmental impacts of a fire