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    An active-learning lesson that targets student understanding of population growth in ecology
    Effective teaching and learning of population ecology requires integration of quantitative literacy skills. To facilitate student learning in population ecology and provide students with the...

    Keywords: population growthexponential growthlogistic growthpopulation ecologygrowth rateDensityAbundancecarrying capacitylinear growth

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    Are you teaching biostatistics with R? Suggestions to help you as work with your students.
    Teaching students how to code and analyze data in R is important for the fields of biology and ecology. Olivia Tabares and the Ecological Forecasting Education Working Group created this resource...

    Keywords: biostatisticsecologybiologyR code

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    Backyard Beetles + Pollinators Lab for BIO 3400 Ecology at Greensboro College
    This contains Dr. Sandra Cooke's modifications to the EREN-NEON FLP Backyard Beetles + Pollinators project developed for BIO 3400 Ecology, an upper level course taught in person at Greensboro...

    Keywords: NEONNational Ecological Observatory Network

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    Figure of the Day - Teaching Notes - Boersma
    Teaching notes from my application of Figure of the Day in my BIOL305 Ecology lecture course for biology majors.

    Keywords: ecologygraphsmath attitudesResources @ BIOMAAPInterpreting Graphs

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    Demography from “virtual” cemeteries
    This is an FMN participant modification of the TIEE module "Demography from physical cemeteries, “virtual cemeteries,” and census data" authored by Janet Lanza in 2012.

    Keywords: ecologyIntroductoryfmnLectureData DiscoveryInstructional SettingAudience LevelActivity LengthMore than 1 hour

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    2013-Greer-EtAl-Collaborative Understanding of Cyanobacteria in Lake Ecosystems
    We describe here a collaboration in which the mathematicians help collect data, the ecologists synthesize more data from model output than they can produce empirically, and the collaboration...

    Keywords: collaborationlakeecosystemcyanobacteriafield workcolonyGloeo

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    Exploring the population dynamics of wintering bald eagles through long-term data
    Practice module included in Teaching Issues and Experiments in Ecology (TIEE) Volume 7

    Keywords: Resources @ ESA - TIEEcase studypopulation ecologyendangered speciesconservation biologymigration ecology

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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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    Introduction to Growth Mindset - Teaching Notes - Boersma
    Teaching notes from my use of BIOMAAP Growth Mindset teaching materials in my 300 level Ecology class for majors.

    Keywords: growth mindsetmath attitudesResources @ BIOMAAP

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    2014 QUBES Minisymposium at the Seventh International Symposium on Biomathematics and Ecology: Education and Research
    Collection of presentations that were part of a minisymposium at the Seventh International Symposium on Biomathematics and Ecology: Education and Research in 2014.

    Keywords: QUBESBEERminisymposium

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    Helping Students to Overcome STUMPS: Scientific terms undermined by meanings peripheral to science
    Many terms and phrases that are ubiquitous in everyday use have very different meanings in science. As a result, biology students often hold prior conceptions that are difficult to change. In this...

    Keywords: Evolutionfitnessprocess of sciencetree of lifemetacognitionlanguagemisconceptionsTerminologyTheory

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    Applying ESA’s 4DEE framework to guide the development of ecological literacy for non-majors
    The Four-Dimensional Ecological Education (4DEE) framework, endorsed by the ESA Governing Board in November 2018, is the culmination of 30 years of work by the ecology community to clearly define...

    Keywords: ecology4DEE Frameworkecological literacy

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    Using Student Perceptions and Cooperative Learning to Unpack Primary Literature on Global Change
    This case describes a three-part assignment in which students discuss key processes that regulate the stability and resilience of the Earth system and our increased risk of generating large-scale...

    Keywords: global changeAnthropoceneEarth-systemplanetary boundary conceptthresholds

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    Hypoxia: A Case Study in R
    Aquatic ecosystems are home to a complex intersection of physical and biological factors and an intersection of natural and anthropogenic factors. In the Chesapeake Bay, low oxygen events have...

    Keywords: data analysisOceanographyProject EDDIE

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    Backyard Beetles + Pollinators: EREN-NEON Flexible Learning Project
    Students observe insect pollinators and other floral visitors in their backyards, or campus, or nearby natural areas to describe plant-pollinator networks and assess how the assemblages from their...

    Keywords: NEONNational Ecological Observatory Network

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    Interconnections in The Open Ecosystem
    Presentation on open education and open science given as the keynote address at the 2019 BioQUEST & QUBES Summer Workshop

    Keywords: biostatisticsstatistical analysisavian malariaSummer Workshop 2018

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    Investigating the effects of urbanization on bird biodiversity: Testing three biodiversity hypotheses using citizen science data
    Students generate predictions and test three hypotheses about how biodiversity is affected by urbanization over time using citizen science generated bird count data and land use data from 13...

    Keywords: hypothesis testingBiodiversityurbanizationguided inquiryland useproductivity hypothesisecosystem stress hypothesisintermediate disturbance hypothesis

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    Comparing Primary and Secondary Forest in a Preserve in Plano Texas: A Forest Ecology Course-based Undergraduate Research Experience (CURE) for Non-Majors and Lower-Level Majors
    An activity that can be conducted as an online or field exercise in which students develop and test their hypotheses about how forest stand characteristics differ between two forest types.

    Keywords: forest ecologyecologycourse-based undergraduate research experienceUsing Excel

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    Exploring the population dynamics of wintering bald eagles through long-term data using R
    The purpose of this modification was to take the analyses that were done in Excel and have the students perform them using R. Students were not given any R code for this activity, as R code was...

    Keywords: Resources @ ESA - TIEEcase studyR programming languagepopulation ecologyendangered speciesconservation biologymigration ecologyggplot2

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    The Mystery of the Missing Martens
    National Center for Case Study Teaching in Science- this interrupted case study introduces basic modeling to investigate a decline in an American marten population on an island in Southeast Alaska.

    Keywords: modelingsurvivaldata analysisvital ratessurvivorshippopulation ecologyage structurefecundityWildlife Biologymodellingmartensbirth ratelife table

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