GLOSSARY OF TERMS 318
geographic area.
successional: replacement of populations in a habitat through a regular progression to a stable state.
tributary: a stream feeding a larger stream, river, or lake.
watershed: the area of land above a given point on a stream that contributes water to the volume of a
body of surface water; also referred to as a drainage basin.
wetlands: those areas that are inundated or saturated by surface or ground water at a frequency and
duration sufficient to support, and that under normal circumstances do support, a prevalence of
vegetation typically adapted for life in saturated soil conditions.
wildlife: any species of wild, free-ranging fauna including fish, and also fauna in captive breeding
programs the objective of which is to reintroduce individuals of a depleted indigenous species in a
previously occupied range.
References Used to Support the Glossary
Many definitions used in the glossary were derived entirely, or partially, from the following sources.
Some definitions were formed by combining definitions from various sources.
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USA, 416 pp.Groves, Craig R. Drafting a Conservation Blueprint: A Practitioner's Guide to Planning for
Biodiversity. The Nature Conservancy: Arlington, Virginia, USA, 445 pp.Miriachi, R.E., ed. 2004. Alabama Wildlife. Volume 1. A checklist of vertebrates and selected
invertebrates: Aquatic mollusks, fishes, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals. The University of
Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa. 209 pp.Pennak, Robert W. 1964. Collegiate Dictionary of Zoology. The Ronald Press Company. New York.
567 pp.Webster's Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary. 1983. Merriam-Webster Inc. Springfield,
Massachusetts. http://www.biology-online.org