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