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    Investigating Leaf Litter Decomposition and Invertebrate Communities in Streams
    Students utilize the provided dataset to engage in an open-inquiry project on the impacts of abiotic and biotic factors on stream macroinvertebrate communities and/or leaf litter decomposition.

    Keywords: Resources @ ESA - TIEEInvasive SpeciesfmnDIGspecies tolerance curvesdiversity indiceslitter decomposition ratesfreshwater ecologyopen-inquiry

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    Natural history collections data and Biodiversity Literacy in Undergraduate Education (BLUE)
    Presentation made by Elizabeth Ellwood et al. as part of the "Bringing Research Data to the Ecology Classroom: Opportunities, Barriers, and Next Steps” Session at the Ecological Society of...

    Keywords: Ecological Society of America

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    When food gets scarce: how plant-pollinator interactions will shift under global change
    In this lesson, students review plant-pollinator interactions and global change concepts. Next, students interpret graphs of pollinator visitation data to Scarlet Gilia. Then, students view and...

    Keywords: mutualismsgraph interpretationCommunity Ecologyplantsfmnglobal changepollinatorsBioGraphIrepresentation in STEM

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    Comparing the Effect of Manure Compost vs. Fertilizer on the Growth of Raphanus sativus
    Manure compost is an organic fertilizer made up of manure or natural nitrogen contents, and typically only supplies crops with nitrogen. Synthetic fertilizer is a man-made compound mixture made...

    Keywords: agricultureplants

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    An Adaptation of "Plants in the Human-Altered Environment (PHAE)" for 100% Remote Learning at East Stroudsburg University
    PHAE is a project to compare effects of landscape alteration intensities on plant diversity. This adaptation modified and extends the modules to suit fully remote learning (data collected...

    Keywords: erenNEONdiversitybiomass4DEE Frameworkecosystemsocioeconomic effects

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    Plants We Eat: Learning Form and Function from Fruits and Vegetables
    This high school or undergraduate lab consists of four activities that guide students through learning about plant parts from the fruits and vegetables with which they are already familiar....
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    How Many More Thymes & Herbivore Defense
    Adaptations to the How Many More Thymes? case study featuring terpene-based herbivore defense and pollinator attraction in Nicotiana plants.

    Keywords: food websgenotypephenotypeHerbivoryherbivoredeterrencemonoterpeneproducerchemotypeThymus vulgaristhymeMediterranean ecosystemchemical defensesManduca sextaNicotiana

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    Seed Dispersal, Mutualisms, and Communities
    In this activity, students use data from published studies to understand patterns of seed dispersal and apply these ideas to understanding the evolution of mutualisms, and how mutualistic...

    Keywords: mutualismsecologyResources @ HHMI - BioInteractivecommunityplantsdiversityScientific Processlarge lecture

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    Expanding the Reach of Crop Plants for Food Security: A Lesson Integrating Non-Majors Students Into the Discussion of Food Diversity and Human Nutrition
    University general education (GE) courses host students with various academic backgrounds, interests, and perspectives. Engaging students in GE classes with agricultural issues can be challenging...

    Keywords: cereal graincrop diversitycrop yieldglobal food systemhuman nutritionnutrient qualitypseudocereal grainstaple cropunderutilized crop

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    Student-Driven Design-and-Improve Modules to Explore the Effect of Plant Bioactive Compounds in Three Model Organisms
    Engaging and supporting introductory level students in authentic research experiences during required coursework is challenging. Plant bioactive compounds attract students' natural curiosity as...

    Keywords: statisticsLabCUREInquiryresearch skillscaterpillardaphniadrugsscience process

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    Plant-microbial mutualisms in canopy gap recovery: How do soil microbial symbionts help tropical forests recover from treefall gaps?
    This module uses tropical plant-soil microbial interactions in canopy gaps as a lens to better understand species interactions and disturbance ecology, while showing how scientists study these...

    Keywords: forest ecologyPlant Ecologynutrient cyclingmicrobestropical forestsDisturbances

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    Polyploidapalooza: Exploring the diversity and evolution of polyploid plants and animals
    This series of modules explores the complex world of polyploidy, including species formation, cell division, evolution, conservation, and economic importance. We focus on polyploidy across the...

    Keywords: Evolutionconservationnatural historyCell DivisionhybridizationPolyploidygenome duplicationallopolyploidyautopolyploidy

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    Bioinformatics: Investigating Sequence Similarity - A Plant Biology Approach
    This laboratory module is a modification of the original published on CourseSource with a focus on plant biology. In the final activity, students conduct a BLAST to compare histone protein...

    Keywords: phylogeneticsbioinformaticssequencingFASTANCBIplant biologyNIBLSEalgorithmsincubatorsPlant and Fungal EvolutionBLASTmultiple sequence alignmentsequence similarityBLOSUM scoring matrixneighbor-joining distance matrixCourseSourcephylogram

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    Distributions CURE- Exploring Species Distribution Changes and their Drivers
    This course-based undergraduate research experience (CURE) uses digitized natural history collections data to answer questions about species distributions and their drivers. This inclusive CURE can...

    Keywords: Evolutionecologyidigbiodata management#iNaturalistcourse based undergraduate research experienceshuman impactsspecies distributionscourse-based research experiences (CUREs)digitized natural history collectionsGBIFQGISBCEENETgeoreferencing

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    Angiosperm Diversity in Pollination Systems
    This activity is designed for upper-level undergraduates and graduate students engaged in ecology and biodiversity sustainability studies. This activity will explore how plant-pollinator...

    Keywords: data visualizationBiodiversityplantsPlant-insect interactionsnetworkinsectsBLUEpollinators

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    Downloading and Visualizing Project Data from the iNaturalist Database
    In this activity you will learn how to create a query, export, and download data from iNaturalist; load data into R; explore pollinator-plant interactions with R, and create heat map, bipartite,...

    Keywords: data visualizationplantsPlant EcologyPlant-insect interactionsnetwork#iNaturalistBLUEpollinators

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    Pollinator Monitoring: Timed Pollinator Count Guide
    The Pollinator Monitoring: Timed Pollinator Count Guide aims to enhance understanding of pollinator diversity and the plants that support them. This guide empowers community scientists to...

    Keywords: surveyPlant-insect interactions#iNaturalistinsectsBLUEpollinators

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    How to Create a Pollinator Project on iNaturalist
    Community science, also known as citizen science, allows any person to participate in scientific research. It breaks down the traditional barriers between scientists and the public, allowing anyone...

    Keywords: Plant EcologyPlant-insect interactions#iNaturalistpollinatorsCitizen and Community Sciencepollination ecology

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    Learn Biological Sciences and Environmental Science through biodiversity and pollution
    Biodiversity or biological diversity is the variety of and variability of biological life on Earth. Biodiversity is existing due to variation among living organisms from different sources air,...

    Keywords: databiologydata scienceBiodiversityclimateenvironmental scienceSpeciespollutionanalyze data

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    Module 4: What Kind of Data Goes in a Field Notebook?
    The goal of this activity is to introduce students to biological field notebooks and how they are used by scientists during field work. Specifically, students will learn what a botanist collecting...

    Keywords: Herbarium digitizationField notebookTimothy Plowman

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