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Introduction to Assessing Biodiversity: Bivalves of the Rio Grande Area

Author(s): Julie Marie Schlichte1, Elizabeth Walsh2, Vicky Zhuang

1. The University of Texas at El Paso 2. University of Texas at El Paso

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Learning to identify taxa is a key skill gained in many systematics classes. This module aims to introduce students to concepts and resources for identifying organisms and assessing species biodiversity. The activities use bivalve specimen and data…

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Learning to identify taxa is a key skill gained in many systematics classes. This module aims to introduce students to concepts and resources for identifying organisms and assessing species biodiversity. The activities use bivalve specimen and data from the Rio Grande stored in natural history collections. Students are given a few mystery specimens that they will attempt to identify, learn how to read labels commonly found with museum specimens and extract information from those labels to map bivalves along the Rio Grande.

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Version 1.0 - published on 24 Feb 2024 doi:10.25334/0YW6-9E65 - cite this

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  1. Biodiversity
  2. species distributions
  3. distance learning
  4. invertebrate zoology
  5. Museum databases data literacy
  6. identification

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We suggest that the lab be run for approximately three hours. The lab is targeted towards an introductory biology class at the undergraduate level or senior level high school. Although the module was implemented in person, resources have been adapted for the distance learning environment.

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This resource includes the lab worksheet, a mystery specimen pack, answers for instructors, project page to specimen and label images, and a short quiz bank.

The lab can be conducted either by computer or through printouts of specimen images and labels. 

 

This project was funded in part by the Institute of Museum and Library Services (CAGML-247505-OMLS-21)

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