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Appendix B: Selected Definitions
Pages 55-56

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... ecosystem functioning – The rate, level, or temporal dynamics of one or more ecosystem processes, such as primary production, total plant biomass, or nutrient gain, loss, or concentration.
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... 109) invasive species – Introduced species that establish self-maintaining populations and spread, with and without human assistance, into new areas where they frustrate human intentions in production and natural landscapes.
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Key Terms

  • ecosystem functioning
  • temporal dynamics
  • including associated
  • associated abiotic
  • human intentions

  • conservation efforts
  • sometimes including
  • protection act
  • influence ecosystem
  • undesirable effects

  • individual agents
  • total plant
  • ecosystem diversity
  • abiotic components
  • efforts elsewhere

  • primary production
  • natural habitat
  • ecosystem processes
  • frustrate human
  • proposed action

  • invasive species
  • introduced species
  • plant biomass
  • influence individual
  • natural landscapes

  • national environmental
  • genetic change
  • human assistance
  • environmental protection
  • individual behaviors


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