Glossary of Definitions:

Age Stucture:

Biodiversity:

Bioenergetics:

Biotic Potential:

Carrying Capacity;

Clumped Distribution

Canopy Cover:

Contagion (Clumped Distribution): The extent to which similar types of land patches are clumped together.

Density:

Edge Density:

Edge Effect:

Emigration:

Environmental Resistence:

Exponential Growth:
 

Fragmentation Index:

Frequency:

Growth Rate:

Habitat Fragmentation:

Immigration:

Indicator Species:

Indigenous Species:

Island Biogeographic Theory:

Limiting Factor:

MUC: Modified UNESCO Classification Scheme; a land use and land classification system designed by the U.S. Geological survey for use with remote sensor data.

Old Growth Forest:

Patch Density:  The number of land patches per unit area.

Population:

Random Distribution:

Riparian:

Size Structure:

Succession:

Uniform Distribution: