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    Investigating human impacts on stream ecology: Scaling up from Local to National with a focus on the Southeast
    Adaptation of the "TIEE Module- How does nutrient pollution impact stream ecosystems locally and nationally?" specifically to include information on the SE (particularly Atlanta, GA).
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    Population Ecology in Swirl: Estimating Population Sizes
    The students will learn to estimate population sizes and consider assumptions of mathematical models and their applicability to the ecology of an organism/population

    Keywords: RSwirl

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    Island Biogeography
    The students will practice the basic code to test MacArthur and Wilson’s (1967) Island Biogeography model, focusing on how island size, distance, and perturbation affect species numbers.
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    Optimal Foraging in Swirl
    This lesson centers around the marginal value theorem (MVT, Charnov 1976), which describes how animals should forage in patches. It serves as a pre-lab to teach MVT basics, vectors, ANOVA, and...
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    Learning with All Your Senses: Mathematical Manipulatives Enhance Student Comprehension of Biological Models
    Handout for a session presentation on kinesthetic learning at the 2019 BioQUEST & QUBES Summer Workshop

    Keywords: Models3D models3D printingmanipulativeskinesthetic learning

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    Biobyte 4 - The role of data science principles and practices in undergraduate biology
    This short activity was an effort to launch a community conversation around the interface of data science principles and practices and undergraduate biology education. A variety of resources,...

    Keywords: biostatisticsstatistical analysisavian malariaSummer Workshop 2018

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    Adaptation of Investigating human impacts on stream ecology: locally and nationally
    TIEE Module- How does nutrient pollution impact stream ecosystems locally and nationally?
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    Processes that Regulate Patterns of Species and Genetic Diversity - Intro Environmental Science
    This activity was adapted for use in an intro non-majors Environmental Science course, with an emphasis on collaborative data collection.

    Keywords: data analysisGenetic Driftquantitative skillsspecies diversityIsland biogeographygamificationgenetic diversityecological driftcolonizationcollaborative data collection

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    Investigating human impacts on stream ecology: locally and nationally
    How does nutrient pollution impact stream ecosystems locally and nationally?
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    Expanding the pipeline: Engaging urban secondary school and college students in science and the environment
    This speed talk will describe three education projects that engage urban minority students in science and the environment.
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    Discrete Modeling and Structures (Course Materials)
    These are the materials for DCS course offered at Bates College. This is a sampler of structures and ways they are used to model biological and social phenomena.

    Keywords: labsagent-based modelingoctavematlabDiscrete Difference Equationsmatrix modelscoursezombiesbiomath courseeconomicsdemonstrationin-class activitylab protocolproblem sethamlet

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    Islands as a Tool for Teaching Ecology and Evolution
    Module for Ecology & Evolution course covering island biogeography principles, The scientific process and hypothesis testing, statistical methods (t-tests, regression), and online database use...

    Keywords: moduleResources @ AIM-UP!species richnessBiodiversityIsland biogeographyAIM-UP

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    Regulation Across Scales: Data Points Icebreaker Jigsaw
    Students examine regulation at cellular, physiological, and ecological scales in a data-based jigsaw to explore how double-negative logic operates across biological systems. This was used as a...

    Keywords: pathwaysgene regulationtrophic cascadesregulationcross-scalecholesterol synthesisLac OperonYellowstone

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    Regulation Across Scales: Data Points on How Life Works
    We examined the scientific literature for simple, data-based illustrations of double-negative logic in the regulation of biological systems as described by Sean B. Carroll in his text, The...
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    Outstanding Oaks: Quercus Phenology at NEON Sites
    This resource uses an app hosted on QUBES to visualize similarities and differences in Quercus phenology at three NEON sites in California, Florida, and Massachusetts.

    Keywords: ecologyphenology

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    Environmental Drivers of Ecosystem Carbon Fluxes from Minutes to Years
    Students build on fundamental concepts of ecosystem production and carbon cycling, combining this knowledge with open long-term data from ecological and meteorological networks to uncover the...

    Keywords: climate changecarbonPlant EcologyBiogeochemistryResource Typecarbon cyclingproductivitynet ecosystem productiongross primary productionecosystem respirationcarbon fluxes

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    Investigating the footprint of climate change on phenology and ecological interactions in north-central North America
    The module was used in lab following lecture material on pairwise interactions in ecology (emphasizing consumption, competition, mutualism), and parallel to community ecology (emphasizing food web...

    Keywords: Resources @ ESA - TIEEclimate changephenologyspecies diversityproblem set

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    Morphological and Molecular Analysis of Plant Phylogeny and Diversity
    In this lab, students perform phylogenetic analyses on morphological and molecular data, and compare.

    Keywords: morphologyphylogenylaboratoryplantsmolecular analysis

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    Demography from physical cemeteries, "virtual cemeteries," and census data
    Laboratory experiment included in Teaching Issues and Experiments in Ecology (TIEE) Volume 8

    Keywords: Resources @ ESA - TIEEdemographysurvivorshiplife tables

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    Quantitative Reasoning Learning Progression
    Three articles about the work of a project on quantitative reasoning in the context of environmental literacy.

    Keywords: quantitative

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