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Restoring Tropical Forests: Implementing a module in an undergraduate majors’ course in forest ecology in Costa Rica

This publication describes implementation of a module on tropical forest restoration in Costa Rica for an upper-level undergraduate course in forest ecology at the Instituto Tecnológico de Costa...

Keywords: forest ecologyRestorationfield course

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Implementing an online module about tropical seed dispersal and restoration in an undergraduate ecology course in the Pacific Northwest, USA

This “Spreading Seeds” case study introduces students to ecology of seed dispersal mutualisms, and their importance for forest restoration. The implementation plan teaching notes, and associated...

Keywords: mutualismRestoration Ecologyspecies interactionHabitat fragmentationSeed dispersalforest recovery

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Healing the scars: A tropical rainforest carbon cycling module implemented in a Systematic Botany course focused on the Brazilian Caatinga flora

This resource describes my experience in implementing this OCELOTS module on tropical rainforest carbon cycling in a Systematic Botany course for undergraduate majors in Biology at Pernambuco...

Keywords: carbon cyclePlant systematicsCaatingaTropical trees

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Causes and consequences of resisting herbivory: How long-lived plants avoid damage from diverse short-lived insect herbivores

This module guides students through decades-long studies of tropical plant-insect interactions to elucidate the ecology and evolution of plant defenses while encouraging students to consider the...

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Implementing an online module about impacts of pollution from gold mining in an undergraduate ecology course in the Pacific Northwest, USA

Students learn about biomagnification of toxins, build skills in graphical interpretation, and apply field methods to tackle complex issues about small-scale gold mining in the Peruvian Amazon....

Keywords: food websmercury biogeochemistryBioaccumulationbiomagnificationPeruvian Amazon

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Restoring Tropical Forests: Implementing a module in an undergraduate majors’ course in forest ecology in Costa Rica

Implementing an online module about tropical seed dispersal and restoration in an undergraduate ecology course in the Pacific Northwest, USA

Healing the scars: A tropical rainforest carbon cycling module implemented in a Systematic Botany course focused on the Brazilian Caatinga flora

Causes and consequences of resisting herbivory: How long-lived plants avoid damage from diverse short-lived insect herbivores

Implementing an online module about impacts of pollution from gold mining in an undergraduate ecology course in the Pacific Northwest, USA

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