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    Processes that Regulate Patterns of Species and Genetic Diversity - Intro Environmental Science
    This activity was adapted for use in an intro non-majors Environmental Science course, with an emphasis on collaborative data collection.

    Keywords: data analysisGenetic Driftquantitative skillsspecies diversityIsland biogeographygamificationgenetic diversityecological driftcolonizationcollaborative data collection

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    Demography from physical cemeteries, "virtual cemeteries," and census data
    Laboratory experiment included in Teaching Issues and Experiments in Ecology (TIEE) Volume 8. Learning objective: Students will learn how to create life tables and survivorship curves using data...

    Keywords: Resources @ ESA - TIEEdemographysurvivorshippopulation ecologylife tableslab activity

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    Global Temperature Change in the 21st Century
    This module was used as an introduction to the science of climate change, with the goal of detecting trends in temperature change providing motivation for later course material on climate...

    Keywords: Resources @ ESA - TIEEclimate changeglobal changeabiotic environment

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    Investigating human impacts on stream ecology: locally and nationally
    How does nutrient pollution impact stream ecosystems locally and nationally?
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    Global Temperature Change in the 21st Century: An Introduction to Global Climate Models and Graphing in Excel (Adapted for Non-Majors)
    Students link human behavior in various climate change scenarios to predicted temperature outcomes at both local (their assigned Latitude) and global (Latitudinal trends) scales. This adaptation is...

    Keywords: ExcelResources @ ESA - TIEEecology labclimate changeenvironmental scienceglobal changehuman-environmental interactionsSimple Linear Regressionhuman impactsinclusive pedagogy-FMN

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    Changes in Lake Ice: Ecosystem Response to Global Change
    Data Set included in included in Teaching Issues and Experiments in Ecology (TIEE) Volume 3

    Keywords: Resources @ ESA - TIEE

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    Introduction to Data Management, Life History, and Demography
    Learning Goals: • explain importance of data management • identify elements of an organized data sheet • create & manipulate data in a spreadsheet • calculate vital statistics using life...

    Keywords: Resources @ ESA - TIEEdemographysurvivorshipdata managementlife tables

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    Changes in Lake Ice: Ecosystem Response to Global Change
    Data Set included in included in Teaching Issues and Experiments in Ecology (TIEE) Volume 3

    Keywords: data analysisResources @ ESA - TIEEassessmentWorksheetlimnologyaquaticlake

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    Changes in Lake Ice: Ecosystem Response to Global Change
    Data Set included in included in Teaching Issues and Experiments in Ecology (TIEE) Volume 3

    Keywords: Resources @ ESA - TIEE

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    Too much of a good thing? Exploring nutrient pollution in streams using bioindicators
    Students use data on nitrogen and phosphorus levels in streams and macrobenthic insect biodiversity to consider issues of nutrient pollution and stream health while learning to filter, summarize,...
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    Climate-Induced Shifts in California Butterflies
    A module in which students generate and test hypotheses about butterfly species’ response to climate change in the Central Valley and Sierra Nevada Mountains of northern California using publicly...

    Keywords: linear regressionScatter Plotsclimate changephenologyhypothesis formulationmountainsCaliforniapublic dataCODAP

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    Performing a Population Viability Analysis from Data Students Collect on a Local Plant
    Experiment included in Teaching Issues and Experiments in Ecology (TIEE) Volume 9

    Keywords: RResources @ ESA - TIEEmatrix model

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    Exploring how climate will impact plant-insect distributions and interactions using open data and informatics
    This teaching module provides an entry point for students to learn about data science, open data repositories (e.g., citizen science data), and species distribution modeling to study the effects of...

    Keywords: modelingcitizen sciencehypothesis testingdata scienceclimate changeR programming languageBiodiversityplant animal interactionsinquiry-based learningspecies distributionseco-informatics

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    Investigating human impacts on local Hawaiian stream ecology
    Students learn about stream ecology on the island of Hawaii using data available through USGS and University of Hawaii websites and develop an understanding for potential stream changes due to...

    Keywords: climateStream ecologyHawaii CountyTopographyMap ReadingRainfall

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    Global Temperature Change in the 21st Century
    This is an FMN participant modification of the TIEE module "Global Temperature Change in the 21st Century," authored by Daniel R. Taub and Gillian S. Graham in 2011.

    Keywords: ecologyIntroductoryfmnLectureUndergraduateData DiscoveryInstructional SettingAudience LevelActivity LengthMore than 1 hour

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    Exploring the population dynamics of wintering bald eagles through long-term data
    This is an FMN participant modification of the TIEE module "Exploring the population dynamics of wintering bald eagles through long-term data" authored by Julie Beckstead, Alexandra N....

    Keywords: ecologyLabEcological Society of AmericafmnLectureUndergraduateData DiscoveryInstructional SettingAudience LevelAdvancedActivity LengthMore than 1 hour

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    Exploring the population dynamics of wintering bald eagles through long-term data
    This is an FMN participant modification of the TIEE module "Exploring the population dynamics of wintering bald eagles through long-term data" authored by Julie Beckstead, Alexandra N....

    Keywords: ecologyIntroductoryEcological Society of AmericafmnLectureUndergraduateData DiscoveryInstructional SettingAudience LevelActivity LengthMore than 1 hour

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    Exploring the population dynamics of wintering bald eagles through long-term data
    This is an FMN participant modification of the TIEE module "Exploring the population dynamics of wintering bald eagles through long-term data" authored by Julie Beckstead, Alexandra N....

    Keywords: ecologyEcological Society of AmericafmnLectureUndergraduateData DiscoveryInstructional SettingAudience LevelActivity LengthLess than 1 hour

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    Investigating human impacts on stream ecology: Intro to R
    This resource uses the Human Impact on Stream Ecology data set, background and questions and provides students an very general introduction to using R. Students perform basic summary statistics and...

    Keywords: graphingdata visualizationR programming languagedescriptive statisticsundergraduate environmental science

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    Data management and introduction to QGIS and RStudio for spatial analysis
    Students learn about the importance of good data management and begin to explore QGIS and RStudio for spatial analysis purposes. Students will explore National Land Cover Database raster data and...

    Keywords: tool:rstudioGISdata managementlandscape ecologyGeospatial ScienceNational Ecological Observatory Networkquantitative inquiryQGIS

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