Glossary

This glossary provides an explanation of terms used in the blog posts. It actually goes a lot broader than that and also provides descriptions of projects, concepts and places.

Allopatric

Allopreening

Anting

Biome

Bird atlas

Bird habitats : Vanrhynsdorp

Bird observatory

Brood parasite

Cainism

Cerophagy

Common harvester ants

Crepuscular

Cryptic

Diurnal

Eclipse plumage

Ecosystem Engineers

Endemic

Feral

Foot-trembling

Hilltopping

Host

Locally common

Near-endemic

Nomadic

Novel ecosystems

Nocturnal

Northern harvester termite

Overwinter

Paardeberg : Introduction

Pentad

Polymorphism

Preening

Quarter degree grid cell

Sexual dimorphism

Siblicide

Supercilium

Virtual Museum

Vagrant

Vlei

Vondeling Wine Farm : Accommodation

Waders

the tern novel ecosystem is in the Glossary
This glossary provides explanations of some of the concepts contained in the blogs of the Biodiversity and Development Institute. This farm dam represents a novel ecosystem.