Keystone species
Description: A species whose loss from an ecosystem would cause a greater than average change in other species populations or ecosystem processes; species that have a disproportionately large effect on other species in a community.Source: Global Biodiversity Assessment GBA Land tenure Description: The right to exclusively occupy and use a specified area of land. Tenure may also be limited to certain resources ("resource tenure") such as timber but not to all resources in a given area. Tenure may be held by individuals, communities, government, or corporations.Source: Global Biodiversity Assessment GBA
A predator at the top of a food web, or discrete subweb, capable of consuming organisms of more than one trophic level beneath it