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Disturbance and Succession an Active Learning Lecture

Author(s): Justin R. St. Juliana

Cornell University

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Learning Objectives: Identify and understand examples of disturbance --- Provide examples of and know/understand the differences between primary and secondary succession --- Know how ecologists study succession --- Understand mechanism of…

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Learning Objectives: Identify and understand examples of disturbance --- Provide examples of and know/understand the differences between primary and secondary succession --- Know how ecologists study succession --- Understand mechanism of succession as a function of pioneer and climax species --- Understand how disturbance and succession shape communities, including the intermediate disturbance hypothesis --- Apply principals of succession and disturbance to landscape level management ---

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Version 3.0 - published on 20 Sep 2024 doi:10.25334/2KJW-6S15 - cite this

Keywords

  1. wildlife
  2. landscape ecology
  3. disturbance
  4. intermediate disturbance hypothesis
  5. fire
  6. succession
  7. smokey bear
  8. landscape management
  9. chronosequence
  10. primary succession
  11. secondary succession

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This is an active 50 min. lecture slide set with 10 activities and a worksheet.  Students learn about disturbance and succession.  At the end of the lecture, they apply what they learned to consider landscape fire management including the question “Is Smokey Bear a hero or a villain?”

See the resource abstract which includes learning objectives.

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Corrected a glitch. 

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