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Glossary
CARRYING CAPACITY The number of inhabitants that an ecosystem can support at a given time.
COMMUNITY All the plant and animal populations occupying a given area.
CRITICAL HABITAT Habitat, essential to some wildlife species, threatened by one or more factors.
ECOSYSTEM includes all components, living and not, of an environment.
ENDANGERED A species "whose prospects for survival in New Jersey are in immediate danger because of a
loss or change of habitat, over-exploitation, predation, competition or disease. Immediate assistance is needed to
prevent extinction." 20
HABITAT The sum of conditions constituting an area where plants and animals live.
HIBERNACULA
A mine or cave used for hibernation.
INTEGRATED PEST MANAGEMENT “A systematic approach to minimizing undesirable pest damage by
maintaining a landscape planting that is part of a functioning ecosystem, determining acceptable pest population
and damage levels, and by considering all possible pest control options before action to control is taken.” 21
NEOTROPICAL MIGRANTS Birds that breed in the temperate zone forests of Canada and the U.S., and
spend the remainder of the year in tropical and subtropical areas to the south of the U.S. (e.g., ruddy turnstone,
yellow-billed cuckoo, common nighthawk, yellow-bellied flycatcher, scarlet tanager, bobolink, red-eyed vireo and
Cape May warbler).
POPULATION The total number of animals of a single kind (species) that live in a common geographical area
at a given time.
SUCCESSION A sequence of plant and animal communities which replace one another in a given area
determined by climate.
THREATENED A species which "may become endangered if conditions surrounding the species begin or
continue to deteriorate." 22
“All things are connected like the blood that unites us all. Man did
not weave the web of life, he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he
does to the web, he does to himself.”
Chief Seattle
20
NJ DEP. Division of Fish, Game and Wildlife. New Jersey is for Wildlife.
21
ND DEP. Planning for Clean Water, the Municipal Guide, March 1999, 58.
22
New Jersey is for Wildlife.
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