OCELOTS: Resources

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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Cold blood and wet skin in hot and dry secondary forests. How do amphibian traits determine persistence in secondary forests?

Students will synthesize information from biological and physiological traits of amphibians and characteristics of secondary forests in the tropics to form hypotheses about persistence of...

Keywords: life historyconservation biologyphysiological ecologyamphibianland use changeEctothermsecondary foresttrait-based ecology

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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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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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Wildlife Crossings in Costa Rica: Are wildlife crossing structures effective in mitigating roadkill mortality on tropical highways?

Meet Jack Ewing, an ecotourism pioneer in Costa Rica who fought to safeguard wildlife from roadkill mortality caused by enlargement of a major highway. This module presents the topic of road...

Keywords: Biodiversityconservation biologyland use changeRoad Ecologyecosystem managementfragmentation

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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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Implementing an online module about measuring carbon stocks in an undergraduate Earth Science course

In this implementation of a case study in which high technology was used to measure carbon stocks in a tropical forest, earth science students in this 4-year college in Oklahoma applied concepts...

Keywords: climate changephotosynthesisbiomasscarbon cyclegreenhouse gas effect

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Snapshot Serengeti: Implementing an online module about Serengeti wildlife ecology in a community-college ecology course

This resource describes the implementation plan for an undergraduate ecology course at Muscatine Community College, Iowa, of an online module featuring a database on Serengeti wildlife populations....

Keywords: ecologywildlifewildlife managementWildlife ecology

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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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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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High technology to measure forest carbon stocks: How can advanced remote sensing improve biomass quantification in the Brazilian Amazon?

A case study on the estimation of aboveground biomass using advanced remote sensors (LiDAR and hyperspectral) in the Brazilian Amazon. Students explore remote sensing (RS) data and compare RS-based...

Keywords: climate changeremote sensinghyperspectraltropical forestsLiDAR data analysiscarbon stocks

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Restoring tropical forests: Implementing an online module about restoration and succession in an advanced undergraduate ecology course

“Restoring tropical forests” was implemented, using restoration as an example of variation in successional pathways, in an undergraduate course at Arizona State University. New versions of the...

Keywords: resourcesimplementationRestorationtropical forestssuccession

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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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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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Healing the scars: Implementing an online module about tropical rainforest carbon cycling in an undergraduate majors ecology course

This resource provides a guide to classroom implementation of a Gala module focused on tropical carbon cycling. I adapted the module to include a discussion of the importance of carbon cycling in...

Keywords: carbon cyclestreamstropical

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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?

Cold blood and wet skin in hot and dry secondary forests. How do amphibian traits determine persistence in secondary forests?

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

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

Wildlife Crossings in Costa Rica: Are wildlife crossing structures effective in mitigating roadkill mortality on tropical highways?

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

Implementing an online module about measuring carbon stocks in an undergraduate Earth Science course

Snapshot Serengeti: Implementing an online module about Serengeti wildlife ecology in a community-college ecology course

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

Vegetation Greening: A Snapshot from the Andean Tropics

High technology to measure forest carbon stocks: How can advanced remote sensing improve biomass quantification in the Brazilian Amazon?

Restoring tropical forests: Implementing an online module about restoration and succession in an advanced undergraduate ecology course

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?

Snapshot Serengeti Online Lab

Healing the scars: Implementing an online module about tropical rainforest carbon cycling in an undergraduate majors ecology course

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