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Gamma Theory

Modern Wild Faunal Resource Management
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Key Words: Models for Ideas and Substance

 The following list of words may be useful in studying for the course. By the end of the course, a student should be able to engage in a mature conversation about any and all of the words and what they symbolize.
  1. Biodiversity
  2. Richness
  3. Variety
  4. Variance
  5. Mean vs median
  6. Simpson-rule diversity
  7. Shannon-Weaver, Shannon-Weiner diversity
  8. Interspersion
  9. Juxtaposition
  10. Subversion
  11. Feedforward
  12. Home range from body weights
  13. Relations in a N component system
  14. Limitations of C/B ratio
  15. Present discounting
  16. Opportunity cost
  17. Zone of influence
  18. Estimating illegal kill
  19. Estimating crippling loss
  20. Phase-plane graphs
  21. Compensatory mortality
  22. Non linear benefits associated with population abundance
  23. Metabolic weight
  24. Maximum density
  25. Carrying capacity
  26. Survival curves
  27. Site index
  28. Mortality factors
  29. Cycles
  30. Cyclic behavior
  31. Resilience
  32. Period
  33. Amplitude
  34. Sustainability
  35. Demand
  36. Risk
  37. Substitutability
  38. Sample size
  39. Equifinality
  40. Lincoln-Petersen index
  41. Bounded-count estimate
  42. Square mile, hectares, acres
  43. Megafactor
  44. Magic number
  45. Guidance system
  46. Rasking
  47. Hyperspace
  48. Faunal space
  49. Faunal cover
  50. Expected value
  51. Delphi
  52. PERT
  53. Coverts
  54. T and E
  55. Equitability
  56. Sliding mean
  57. Levels of objectives
  58. F13 succession actions
  59. Doubling time
  60. Poisson distribution
  61. Binomial distribution
  62. Normal distribution
  63. Beta distribution
  64. Expected value
  65. Heart girth
  66. Similarity indices
  67. Evenness
  68. Phenology
  69. Edge
  70. Edge effect
  71. Edge tunnel
  72. Permutations
  73. I and E in wildlife agency
  74. P-R and D-J wildlife agency
  75. Life group management
  76. Life form
  77. Guild (ecological vs. entrepreneurial)
  78. Regression
  79. R-square
  80. Chi-square
  81. t-test
  82. Injury vs damage
  83. Sex ratio
  84. CITES
  85. Davis graph
  86. Sigmoid
  87. Species-area relations
  88. Bayes and Bayesian
  89. Feedback
  90. Natality
  91. Flushing (physiology)
  92. Climograph
  93. Preybase
  94. Microtine-Peromyscine
  95. Adaptive management
  96. Economics vs Financial
  97. Concept of the Aggregates
  98. Homeostasis
  99. Entropy

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