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Keystone Species
A species so critical to an ecosystem that its removal could potentially destroy the entire system. A good example of this are Blue Jays, which plant acorns that give rise to oak forests. Without Blue Jays, oak forests are not...[Read more about this term]
Knowledge Management Systems
Internal corporate information systems focused on the acquisition, codification, and management of data and information within an organization. The best of these systems incentivize employees to input and share their experiences so that others can learn from these experiences and...[Read more about this term]
Kyoto Protocol
An agreement developed by and for industrial nations in 1997 at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCC) in Kyoto, Japan, to reduce their emissions of greenhouse gases by at least 5% below 1990 levels by 2012. The...[Read more about this term]
