WLE 230 Ecosystem Management

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Across
  1. 4. Succession beginning after major disturbance of ecosystem
  2. 5. What your grandparents ate
  3. 8. To repair damaged ecosystems and support natural diversity
  4. 12. Major ecosystem types typical of large geographic areas
  5. 15. Sequence of ecosystems
  6. 17. Theory that more species on closer, larger islands
  7. 19. To set aside natural ecosystems and keep them viable
  8. 21. Group of interbreeding organisms
  9. 23. Reserve selection to manage individual species
  10. 24. Succession beginning with bare rock
  11. 25. Ecosystem category for most land and freshwater
Down
  1. 1. Each transitory ecosystem in succession
  2. 2. One species in a defined area
  3. 3. Large habitat divided into two or more pieces
  4. 6. Total alteration of ecosystem structure and function
  5. 7. Sustainable use of ecosystems for humans and wildlife
  6. 9. Earth's layer that supports life
  7. 10. All populations of species in an area
  8. 11. Reserve selection to protect a range of ecosystems
  9. 13. Illustrates the 90% energy loss at each trophic level
  10. 14. Species that need large, contiguous habitats
  11. 16. Biotic and abiotic components functioning together
  12. 18. One organism
  13. 20. Ecosystem dominated by humans, domestic plants and animals
  14. 22. Reduced when habitat degradation occurs