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Implementing an online module about acoustic biodiversity monitoring in the tropics for use in an undergraduate course

This implementation plan for an online module organizes activities for understanding physical concepts and biological considerations regarding acoustic monitoring, and provides a Spanish version of...

Keywords: Biodiversityconservation biologyTropical ecologyacoustic monitoring

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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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Healing the scars: Tropical rainforest carbon cycling. Does it matter which tree species you plant?

This online module explores how differences in traits of tropical tree species translate into differential effects on the carbon cycle, integrating ecological information across scales and the...

Keywords: climate changecarbon cyclingtropical biology4DEE Frameworkforest restorationtropical tree speciessoil carbon

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Spreading seeds: How can a better understanding of seed dispersal improve tropical forest restoration?

Learn about seed dispersal by animals and how this ecological process can be harnessed to facilitate forest recovery through a forest restoration experiment in Costa Rica. Apply what you learn to a...

Keywords: conservationRestorationtropical forestsbiodiversity lossSeed dispersal

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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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Vegetation Greening: A Snapshot from the Andean Tropics

This online module explores how satellite images are used to study vegetation greenness and, using Ecuador as an example, demonstrates how tropical vegetation experienced increased greenness...

Keywords: remote sensingTime Series AnalysisEarth ObservationEarth and Space SciencesgeographyGIMMS NDVIgreening and browningtropical Andes

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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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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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