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Between a rock and a hard place. What can turning rocks tell us about land-use change impacts on animals living in a rock outcrop?

Unique rock outcrops in the Western Ghats biodiversity hotspot in India provide a setting that challenges students to develop a study to assess the impact of land-use change on threatened animals...

Keywords: conservationagricultureland useamphibianstropicalbiodiversity losslateritic outcropopen natural ecosystemsreptilesrocks

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Implementing an online module about plant functional traits in the context of restoration ecology for an undergraduate class in Brazil.

This resource describes my experience in implementing this OCELOTS module in a Functional Trait-based Restoration class for undergraduate majors in the Forest Sciences Department / Escola Superior...

Keywords: tropical forestsbiodiversity structureAtlantic forestfunctional traitshybrid ecosystems

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Functional trait-based restoration. Can hybrid restoration enhance invasion resistance and ecosystem services?

A hybrid restoration experiment in Hilo, Hawaiʻi, in an area of high biocultural conservation value, that address the ecological and philosophical issues involved in conducting restoration with a...

Keywords: Invasive SpeciesagroforestryHawaii CountyRestoration Ecologyplant functional traitstropical forest

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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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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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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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Restoring Tropical Forests: Implementing an online module in an undergraduate biology course in Indonesia

This resource describes my implementation of a module on tropical forest restoration in Costa Rica for an undergraduate Ecology course at Universitas Gadjah Mada, Indonesia....

Keywords: RestorationEcosystem Servicesforest restorationtransdisciplinary researchsocial forestryhuman well-beingcommunity-based

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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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Between a rock and a hard place. What can turning rocks tell us about land-use change impacts on animals living in a rock outcrop?

Implementing an online module about plant functional traits in the context of restoration ecology for an undergraduate class in Brazil.

Functional trait-based restoration. Can hybrid restoration enhance invasion resistance and ecosystem services?

A rainforest with a gold chain? The impacts of gold mining on the trophic web of an Amazonian rainforest of SE Peru

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

Snapshot Serengeti Online Lab

Restoring Tropical Forests: Implementing an online module in an undergraduate biology course in Indonesia

SNAPSHOT SERENGETI: Analyzing Wildlife Ecological Relationships in an upper-level Ecology course

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