Sec. 35501.

As used in this part:

(a) “Biological diversity” means the full range of variety and variability within and among living organisms and the natural associations in which they occur. Biological diversity includes ecosystem diversity, species diversity, and genetic diversity.

(b) “Committee” means the joint legislative working committee on biological diversity created pursuant to section 35504.

(c) “Conserve”, “conserving”, and “conservation” mean measures for maintaining natural biological diversity and measures for restoring natural biological diversity through management efforts, in order to protect, restore, and enhance as much of the variety of native species and communities as possible in quantities and distributions that provide for the continued existence and normal functioning of native species and communities, including the viability of populations throughout the natural geographic distributions of native species and communities.

(d) “Ecosystem” means an assemblage of species, together with the species' physical environment, considered as a unit.

(e) “Ecosystem diversity” means the distinctive assemblages of species and ecological processes that occur in different physical settings of the biosphere.

(f) “Genetic diversity” means the differences in genetic composition within and among populations of a given species.

(g) “Habitat” means the area or type of environment in which an organism or biological population normally lives or occurs.

(h) “Reporting department” means a state department or agency that is required by the committee under this part to file 1 or more reports.

(i) “Species diversity” means the richness and variety of native species.

(j) “State strategy” means the recommended state strategy prepared by the committee.

(k) “Sustained yield” means the achievement and maintenance in perpetuity of regular periodic output of the various renewable resources without impairment of the productivity of the land.

History: Add. 1995, Act 59, Imd. Eff. May 24, 1995 Popular Name: Act 451Popular Name: NREPA