What Is Ecosystem-Based Management

question 6

Multiple Choice

What is ecosystem-based management?

• A) utilizing local ecosystems to better serve human needs
• B) prioritizing the natural environment over human needs, assuming most human needs can be accomplished through a stable and healthy ecosystem
• C) a shift in emphasis toward principles of protecting habitat and maintaining biological diversity
• D) the process of restoring ecosystems that had been previously damaged by earlier policy decisions

Understand the relationship between individual differences (including personality traits and attitudes) and stress perception and response.

Recognize the effect of social support and past experience on coping capabilities and stress management.

Identify stressors as physical or psychological demands from the environment.

Understand the physiological and biochemical stress responses, including their limits and the concept of the fight-or-flight response.

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Definitions:

Vasodilation

Widening of a blood vessel when smooth muscle that rings it relaxes.

Vertebrate

Animal with a backbone.

Hot Temperature

A condition or degree of heat that is considerably higher than what is considered comfortable or normal to living organisms and their environments.

Tubular Secretion

Ions and breakdown products of organic molecules move out of peritubular capillaries and into filtrate.