Endangered Species are defined under the Endangered Species Act as those species in danger of becoming extinct throughout all or a significant portion of their range. Evolutionary Units are segments of biological diversity that contain the potential for a unique evolutionary future. Exotics are wildlife species which are not native to the place where they are found. North American examples include bullfrogs, European starlings, wild boar, nutria, and Persian wild goat. Fecundity is the number of young produced per female per unit of time.
Herbivores are wildlife species that eat vegetation.
Home range is the area that an animals uses throughout its lifetime to eat, find shelter, and reproduce. Integrated pest management is an ecologically based pest- control strategy that relies on natural mortality factors such as natural enemies, weather, and crop management, and seeks to disturb these factors as little as possible. Longevity is the age at death of an animal. Metapopulation is a group of subpopulations each isolated in a patch of habitat. The persistence of the metapopulation is dependent on the persistence of the subpopulations and movement of animals among subpopulations to exchange genes.