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Pesticide-Driven Bee Mortality: An Introduction to Survival Analysis in R

In this lesson, students will receive an introduction to survival analysis in R utilizing data on bee mortality caused by pesticide exposure. In their code, students will assess survivability,...

Keywords: chi-squaredsurvivalbeespesticidesRoundupsurvival analysissurvival plotsherbicides

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Save the Bees, Ditch the Plow: A lesson exploring how squash bee abundance is affected by varying levels of soil disturbance.

The purpose of this lesson is to explore the effects that three varying degrees of soil disturbance has on the squash bee abundance that is observed. We will learn about the importance of...

Keywords: beesmutualismpollinatorscommunity-based conservationno till farmingreduced tillage

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2016-Banks-EtAl-Modeling Bumble Bee Population Dynamics with Delay Differential Equations

To provide a tool for projecting and testing sensitivity of growth of populations under contrasting and combined pressures, we propose a delay differential equation model that describes...

Keywords: population modelReproductionspline approximationsBombus terrestrisneonicotinoidsbumble bee

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Does Urbanization Favor Exotic Species?

In this lesson, students will learn about the exotic European honeybee (Apis mellifera), and why they are considered an important pollinator. They will be prompted to think about the impacts of...

Keywords: RStudiogeneral linear modelsAICurbanizationPoisson Distributionnative speciesHoneybeeexotic species

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Case Study: Pollination of the Early Spider Orchid (Ophrys sphegodes) by the Solitary Bee (Andrena nigroaenea)

The research uses natural history collection data to explore a potential phenological shift between an orchid that employs sexual deception and a solitary bee.

Keywords: pollination biologyClimate change and phenologydigitized natural history collectionsPseudocopulation

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6-005-InsectColonySurvivalOpt-ModelingScenario

We present a system of nonlinear differential equations to model the control of energy flow into producing workers or reproducers in an insect colony, using a set of given parameters and a number...

Keywords: optimizationOptimal Control Theoryinsect colonyoptimal controlnatural resourcesPointryagin's Maximum Principlecontrol variable

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Animal Behaviour Case Study Lessons in Communication, Migration, and Parental Care Using the Jigsaw Approach

Animal behaviour courses integrate concepts across biological disciplines and are particularly well suited for collaborative, student-focused teaching...

Keywords: case studycommunicationprimary literatureanimal behaviorjigsawParental CaremigrationAnimal BehaviourProximate mechanisms

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Science Behind the Lesson: It's a Bird! It's a Plane! It's Biomechanics!

Active flight is a specialized mode of movement found in insects, birds, and mammals. The anatomy, morphology, physiology, and ecology of flying taxa has changed over evolutionary time. Researchers...

Keywords: EvolutionecologybatphysiologyAnatomybiomechanicsbirdFlightinsect

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Outside the Norm: Using Public Ecology Database Information to Teach Biostatistics

Biology students’ understanding of statistics is incomplete due to poor integration of these two disciplines. In some cases, students fail to learn statistics at the undergraduate level due...

Keywords: biostatisticshypothesis testingexperimental design

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A Rapid Genetic Screen Using Wisconsin Fast Plants^®: A Hands-On Approach to Inheritance of de novo Mutations

Some concepts in genetics, such as genetic screens, are complex for students to visualize in a classroom and can be cumbersome to undertake in the laboratory. Typically, very large populations are...

Keywords: mutationInheritancegermlinesomaplant lifecycle

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Pesticide-Driven Bee Mortality: An Introduction to Survival Analysis in R

Save the Bees, Ditch the Plow: A lesson exploring how squash bee abundance is affected by varying levels of soil disturbance.

2016-Banks-EtAl-Modeling Bumble Bee Population Dynamics with Delay Differential Equations

Does Urbanization Favor Exotic Species?

Case Study: Pollination of the Early Spider Orchid (Ophrys sphegodes) by the Solitary Bee (Andrena nigroaenea)

6-005-InsectColonySurvivalOpt-ModelingScenario

Animal Behaviour Case Study Lessons in Communication, Migration, and Parental Care Using the Jigsaw Approach

Science Behind the Lesson: It's a Bird! It's a Plane! It's Biomechanics!

Outside the Norm: Using Public Ecology Database Information to Teach Biostatistics

A Rapid Genetic Screen Using Wisconsin Fast Plants^®: A Hands-On Approach to Inheritance of de novo Mutations

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