Forest of Knowledge

Mature Forest

Healthy trees that have grown to marketable size, suitable for harvest. The trees are at

maximum growth and health.

Deciduous

Means falling off at maturity- typically used in reference to trees or shrubs that lose their leaves seasonally and to the shedding of other plant structures such as petals after

flowering or fruit when ripe.

RiparianLiving or located on the bank of a natural

watercourse (as a river) or sometimes of a lake

or a tidewater.

Simple Leaf

                                                                A leaf not divided into parts.

Compound Leaf

When one stem has a bunch of leaflets on it.

        Leaf BudAn undeveloped shoot

that a leaves grow from

  

  A leaf bud is composed of a short stemwith embryonic leaves. Leaf buds often are less plump and more pointed thanflower buds.

Petiole~Botany. The slender stalk by which a leaf is attached to the stem; leafstalk.

Vertebrate~having a spinal column or backbone.

Examples: Humans, Cats, Dogs

Invertebrate~ Without a backbone

Examples:JellyfishStar fishCrabs

Species Diversity

Shows you the number of species in an area and their relative abundance.

 D = (n / N)2                                                                Key

                                                                n = # of particular species

                                                   N = # of all species                                                       D = value of

diversity

Species richness: The number of species in an environment

Species evenness- How equal the number of animals in a species are compared with other species

Ex.) 42 foxes and 1000 dogs are not even, but 42 foxes and 40 dogs are.

One of several diversity indices used to measure diversity in categorical data. It is simply the Information entorpy of

the distribution, treating species as symbols and their relative population sizes as the probability.

Shannon- Diversity Index