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    Modeling Trophic Interactions in Rice Agriculture: A Jigsaw Approach
    Students explore four different issues related to trophic interactions that affect modern rice agriculture practices and consider relationships between these issues using Lotka and Volterra...

    Keywords: mathematical modelLotka-Volterrajigsawfood chaintrophic cascadespredator-prey interactionsfood web

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    Understanding Trophic Interactions in Rice Agriculture: A Jigsaw Approach
    Students explore four different issues related to trophic interactions that affect modern rice agriculture practices and consider relationships between these issues.

    Keywords: jigsawfood chaintrophic cascadesfood web

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    Population dynamics in simple two-species experimental microcosms
    A two-week exercise which includes homework calculations and teaching resources. Students establish brine shrimp and Platymonas algal cultures and predict final densities.

    Keywords: population dynamicsecologyspecies interactionsbotanyecosystemsfood chainpopulation regulation

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    Food Chain Dynamics In A Simple Ecosystem
    In this lab, students will work with a simple algae/brine shrimp environment to learn about food chains and population dynamics.

    Keywords: ecologyecosystemsfood chainalgae

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    Food Chain Dynamics In A Simple Ecosystem
    In this lab, students will construct simple experiments with algae and brine shrimp to learn about food chains and population dynamics.

    Keywords: ecologyecosystemsfood chainalgaebrine shrimp

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    Food Chain Dynamics In A Simple Ecosystem
    In this lab, students will work with a simple algae/brine shrimp environment to learn about food chains and population dynamics.

    Keywords: ecologyecosystemsfood chain

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    Parasites -- They're what's for dinner: Investigating the role of parasites in aquatic food webs
    Use a well-resolved food web database from a freshwater wetland ecosystem in central California to explore how parasites influence community properties and learn how food webs are constructed and...

    Keywords: Resources @ ESA - TIEEparasitismDisease ecologyfmnDIGfood web ecologywetland communitiescomplex life cyclesnetwork modelingintroductory ecology

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    Ocean Acidification: Predator-Prey Interactions of Intertidal Snails and Sea Stars
    This lesson discusses ocean acidification, its causes, and the potential dangers that it may pose to aquatic ecosystems by analyzing the relationship between intertidal invertebrates. While...

    Keywords: predator-prey interactionsocean acidification

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    Climate Change, Phenology, and Community Interactions: Helping students explore the complexity of changing ecosystems
    Students explore findings from long-term studies of migrating and hibernating animals at high elevation. Students then use this understanding to explore the phenology of species and possible...

    Keywords: species interactionsclimate changefmnphenologyDIGenvironmental variationtrophic mismatch

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    Terrestrial Trophic Cascades & Population Structure
    In this activity, students will use data from natural parks to examine trophic cascades.

    Keywords: case studyBiodiversityplantsResource Typetrophic cascadesnational parks

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    Terrestrial Trophic Cascades & Population Structure
    In this activity, students will use data from natural parks to examine trophic cascades.

    Keywords: case studyBiodiversityplantsResource Typetrophic cascadesnational parks

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    The nose knows: How tri-trophic interactions and natural history shape bird foraging behavior
    Students investigate the role of olfaction and infochemicals on bird foraging behavior through three different quantitative modules. In this module students create graphs, generate statistics, draw...

    Keywords: Resources @ ESA - TIEEforagingfmnbehavioral ecologyDIGtrophic cascadesAntarctic foodd webs

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    The nose knows: How tri-trophic interactions and natural history shape bird foraging behavior. Introduction to data visualization.
    Students investigate the role of olfaction and infochemicals on bird foraging behavior.. In this module students learn to analyze and present graphic data in ways that simplify interpretation.

    Keywords: Resources @ ESA - TIEEforagingdata visualizationCommunity Ecologyfmnbehavioral ecologyDIGtrophic cascadesAntarctic foodd webs

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    Trophic Cascades, Population Structure, and the Role of Keystone Species
    In this activity, students will use data from natural parks to examine terrestrial trophic cascades. Concepts will then be applied to examples in freshwater ecosystems.

    Keywords: case studyBiodiversityplantsResource Typetrophic cascadesnational parks

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    Terrestrial Trophic Cascades & Population Structure
    In this activity, students will use data from natural parks to examine trophic cascades.

    Keywords: case studyBiodiversityplantsurban ecosystemsResource Typetrophic cascadesnational parksdeforestation

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    The nose knows: How tri-trophic interactions and natural history shape bird foraging behavior. An introduction to statistical analysis in animal behavior research
    Students investigate the role of olfaction and infochemicals on bird foraging behavior through two different quantitative activities where they generate hypotheses, create figures, conduct data...

    Keywords: Resources @ ESA - TIEEforagingfmnanimal behaviorbehavioral ecologyDIGtrophic cascades

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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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    Implementing an online module on microbe-plant interactions in the context of ecological disturbance for Microbiology and Biochemistry courses in India
    This module explores tropical forest gap dynamics and helps students develop hypotheses about climate-related changes in plant-microbial interactions and was implemented in Microbiology and...

    Keywords: data analysisscientific methoddata interpretationdisturbance ecologyexperiential learningCarbon sequestration in tropical rainforestPlant Microbial interactionsCanopy GapUndergraduate MicrobiologyNational Education Policy 2020

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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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    Terrestrial Trophic Cascades & Population Structure
    In this activity, students will use data from natural parks to examine trophic cascades.

    Keywords: case studyBiodiversityplantsResource Typetrophic cascadesnational parks

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