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    Food Chain Dynamics In A Simple Ecosystem
    In this lab, students will work with a simple algae/brine shrimp environment to learn about food chains and population dynamics.

    Keywords: ecologyecosystemsfood chainalgae

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    Food Chain Dynamics In A Simple Ecosystem
    In this lab, students will work with a simple algae/brine shrimp environment to learn about food chains and population dynamics.

    Keywords: ecologyecosystemsfood chain

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    Food Chain Dynamics In A Simple Ecosystem
    In this lab, students will work with a simple algae/brine shrimp environment to learn about food chains and population dynamics. It was implemented with limited alteration for an Introductory...

    Keywords: ecologyecosystemsfood chain

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    Malawian Aquaculture Pond Ecosystem Challenge
    This case study challenges students to design a pond that will provide supplemental food security to a rural Malawian village. In the process they apply concepts of primary and secondary...
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    Food Chain Dynamics In A Simple Ecosystem
    In this lab, students will construct simple experiments with algae and brine shrimp to learn about food chains and population dynamics.

    Keywords: ecologyecosystemsfood chainalgaebrine shrimp

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    Modeling Trophic Interactions in Rice Agriculture: A Jigsaw Approach
    Students explore four different issues related to trophic interactions that affect modern rice agriculture practices and consider relationships between these issues using Lotka and Volterra...

    Keywords: mathematical modelLotka-Volterrajigsawfood chaintrophic cascadespredator-prey interactionsfood web

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    Understanding Trophic Interactions in Rice Agriculture: A Jigsaw Approach
    Students explore four different issues related to trophic interactions that affect modern rice agriculture practices and consider relationships between these issues.

    Keywords: jigsawfood chaintrophic cascadesfood web

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    A rainforest with a gold chain? The impacts of gold mining on the trophic web of an Amazonian rainforest of SE Peru
    The use of mercury in artisanal gold mining affects aquatic and terrestrial food webs in the Peruvian Amazon. Learn about bioaccumulation, explore data on mercury deposition in vegetation and how...

    Keywords: conservation biologydeforestationhuman healthpollutionbiodiversity losstropical land use

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    Population dynamics in simple two-species experimental microcosms
    A two-week exercise which includes homework calculations and teaching resources. Students establish brine shrimp and Platymonas algal cultures and predict final densities.

    Keywords: population dynamicsecologyspecies interactionsbotanyecosystemsfood chainpopulation regulation

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    Using Seafood Traceability to Teach the Complexities of Natural Resource Management and Sustainability
    This lesson plan addresses the challenge of conveying to students the globalized nature and complexity of natural resource management. Specifically, it uses seafood traceability, or the ability to...

    Keywords: sustainabilityfisheriesaquacultureAnthropogenic ImpactsNatural Resource Management

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    Marsh Madness: Using Video Games and a Case Study to Explore Food Webs and Ecosystem Services in Carpinteria Salt Marsh Reserve
    As the complexity and interconnectedness of our world increases, we are continually expected to be capable of complex, non-linear thinking in order to successfully tackle and solve the challenges...

    Keywords: food webssystems thinkingGame Based LearningEcosystem Servicessocio-ecological networks

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    Geoscience Methods and Resources for K-5 Pre-Education Majors
    : Exploring Geoscience Methods was an excellent capstone experience for Elementary Education Majors. The class I used this module with was 24 students of various backgrounds and academic...

    Keywords: geneticsvideosQUBESecologyResources @ HHMI - BioInteractiveMathematical Biologycalculusjavaorganismal biologyquantitative biologybioinformaticsneurosciencegenomicscancerSecondaryyoutubemicrobiomeFaculty Mentoring NetworksalamanderCapture mark-recaptureAudience level - Introductory UG - majorsAudience level - Introductory UG - non-majorsecosystemsgenetic basis of diseasebiology of cellshuman reproductionfood chainIntroduction to Modelingrandom number generatorPost-secondaryLower DivisionPossible TasksModeling ProjectBuildCompareEvaluateexponential decayrecursionabsorptionelimination

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    Expanding the Reach of Crop Plants for Food Security: A Lesson Integrating Non-Majors Students Into the Discussion of Food Diversity and Human Nutrition
    University general education (GE) courses host students with various academic backgrounds, interests, and perspectives. Engaging students in GE classes with agricultural issues can be challenging...

    Keywords: cereal graincrop diversitycrop yieldglobal food systemhuman nutritionnutrient qualitypseudocereal grainstaple cropunderutilized crop

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    Snapshot Serengeti Online Lab
    Snapshot Serengeti is a fully online inquiry-based lab that uses real camera-trap data from Serengeti National Park in Tanzania to explore themes of tropical ecology and animal behavior.

    Keywords: ecologyspecies interactionscitizen scienceCommunity Ecologyanimal behaviormigration ecologyScience Communicationspecies distributionspredator-prey interactionsTropical ecologycamera trapsSerengetisavannah biome

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    Parasites -- They're what's for dinner: Investigating the role of parasites in aquatic food webs
    Use a well-resolved food web database from a freshwater wetland ecosystem in central California to explore how parasites influence community properties and learn how food webs are constructed and...

    Keywords: Resources @ ESA - TIEEparasitismDisease ecologyfmnDIGfood web ecologywetland communitiescomplex life cyclesnetwork modelingintroductory ecology

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    The Challenge of Food
    How will we feed the estimated 9 billion people that will be on the planet by 2050? How can food be distributed equally? We’ll hear about making more nutritious food via genetic engineering and...

    Keywords: videosScience ForwardfoodGMOs

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    SNAPSHOT SERENGETI: Analyzing Wildlife Ecological Relationships in an upper-level Ecology course
    Two assignments were created to develop skills in ecological hypothesis testing, data analysis and interpretation using the Snapshot Serengeti and Gorongosa camera trap data and graphical...

    Keywords: hypothesis testinggraphical analysis and interpretationsavannah biomeecological relationshipscompare and contrast to primary literature

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    A Lesson on Matter and Energy at the Organismal Scale: Linking Patterns and Processes Across Diverse Taxa
    Pathways and transformations of energy and matter (PTEM) are a conceptually challenging but essential component of biological literacy. Curricular gaps about PTEM nevertheless remain; although...

    Keywords: plantsenergyAnimalsfungimatterorganismal scale

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    Optimal Foraging Theory
    This module introduces the optimal foraging strategy in the context of understanding competition and coexistence among species. It is intended for an introductory biology audience.

    Keywords: ecologyforagingoptimal foragingInequalities

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    Integrating Community Ecology Into the Study of Parasites: Exploring the Effect of Host Behavior on Parasite Transmission Rates
    Organismal life cycles are often presented as a set of facts to memorize in undergraduate biology courses. This approach is cognitively demanding for students and fails to convey how central life...

    Keywords: statisticsspecies interactionsQuantitative reasoninggraphsCommunity EcologyParasitologyfood webs

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