Also known as finger or hump coral. They have fused branches with round tips found in similar places at A. cervicornis including the Bahamas. It is seen as "least concern".

This is also known as staghorn coral. It typically is yellow with white branch tips located in Florida, Australia, Caribbean, and Venezuela. It is critically endangered.

This refers to taking fragments that break off coral reefs due to storm impacts and using those fragments to regenerate damaged reefs.

These pests include rats, introduced by humans from ships, cats, and stoats. A stoat is related to otters and weasels, looks very similar to ferrets.

definition: the movement of animals in response to light. Positive phototaxic is towards the light and negative phototaxic is moving away from the light.

As of 2023, urbanization in New Zealand was at 86.98%. very similar to past years, meaning there has been no break in growth for the biological environment to keep up.

Perhaps the local governments would work with their Fish and Wildlife communities to make more surveying jobs to monitor these less "notable" locations to avoid ignoring a possible invasive outbreak.

Definition: rapid increase in numbers or the rapid reproduction of a cell, part, or organism.

Also known as a Ruffe (or pope), this fish lives in freshwater in Europe and northern Asia but invasive in North America. They are rapid growing and become sexually mature in their first year.

Not only do animals help victims of PTSD regulate their anxieties, but they can also lower the possibility of being diagnosed with PTSD by 66% if introduced beforehand.

https://news.va.gov/132029/service-dogs-lower-ptsd-symptoms-in-veterans/

Most large scale earthquakes in Japan are followed by tsunamis that cause flooding.

Before Hurricane Katrina, there was no shelters open to pets. It was only after over 2,000 humans deaths with 50% stating they stayed home due to not wanting to leave their pets, did shelters finally accept animals.

https://awionline.org/awi-quarterly/winter-2017/katrinas-lesson-learned-animals-no-longer-excluded-storm-evacuations

insects like ladybugs and parasitic wasps attack and consume aphids

The ants will "herd" the aphids to the underside of a leaf to better protect them from predators while collecting the honeydew.

ants and aphids have a mutualistic relationship with one another. The aphids gain protection from the ants, while the ants get to eat the honeydew that aphids produce.

Central-place foragers is referring to an animal that gathers food based on distance and energy acquired for the maximum yield that they can specifically bring back home to a nest or base for consumption.

I did a presentation in Bio 2 about the Fiordland Crested Penguins of New Zealand who live in jungles and rocky coastlines. One of their biggest predators was dogs that are unaccompanied and kill the penguins or eggs. It is also important to add that humans can be cruel and smash laid eggs too.

There was very little information I could find online about evidence of early-human penguin consumption (however it can be inferred that humans would eat what is available, especially in such climates). However I did find this paper on a few known men to eat penguins during their explorations. It is important to note it is illegal for Americans to eat penguins because every species is now protected. https://www.ends-of-earth.com/history/pass-the-penguin/

pollinators are a necessary step in all plants around the world. While they are needed for food and agriculture purposes, it is important for their numbers to stay up around the world because every ecosystem relies on them for shelter, oxygen, food, and many others

Many doctors and professionals state that getting out doors and help regulate your mental health, improve stress levels, and even lower rates of heart disease.

You cannot have provisioning services without regulating services or else overconsumption and greed will run rampant, depleting the resource till it is unusable.

photo of the Great Pacific Garbage patch

Definition: to remove and separate, sometimes isolate

Definition: thermohaline is deep-ocean currents driven by differences in density. Density is controlled by (thermo) temperature and (haline) salinity.