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    Island biogeography, spatial ecology, and macroinvertebrate species diversity in Richmond’s rock pools
    Students investigate questions of community ecology and biogeography using data from an urban rock pool ecosystem. Using ArcGIS 10, students learn to create effective maps, calculate landscape...

    Keywords: aquatic macroinvertebratesCommunity Ecologyspecies diversityGeographic Information System (GIS)spatial analysisJames River

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    Hardy-Weinberg Equilibrium
    This module introduces the Hardy-Weinberg model in the context of understanding the population's genotype and allele frequencies. It is intended for an introductory biology audience.

    Keywords: genotypeallelesGenetics and EvolutionFrequenciesHardy-Weinberg model

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    Population Genetics: Limits to Adaptation
    This module introduces gene flow in the context of understanding the persistence of maladaptive traits in some populations. It is intended for an introductory biology audience.

    Keywords: LogarithmsAlgebraGenetics and Evolution

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    Cohort Life Tables
    This module introduces cohort life tables in the context of understanding demographic processes and how they affect populations. It is intended for an introductory biology audience.

    Keywords: population dynamicsecologyOpenStaxfuncitonsDemographic processes

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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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    Finding Selection in All the Right Places
    Lab introducing students to evolutionary genetics using bioinformatics and biocuration, published as GSA Learning Resource

    Keywords: geneticsbioinformaticssequencingNIBLSE

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    Adaptation of Terrestrial Trophic Cascades & Population Structure to a Non-Major’s Ecology Course
    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. 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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    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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    NEON Data in the Classroom: Implementing and Adapting an Open Education NEON Resource “Quantifying the Drivers and Impacts of Natural Disturbance Events-The 2013 Colorado Floods” for the Southern California Classroom.
    Natural disasters and subsequent ecological disturbance events illustrate the complexity of problems in ecology and environmental science, and can be used as effective teaching tools. Unpacking the...

    Keywords: data in the classroomdata interpretationTemperature ChangeprecipitationPalmer Drought Severity IndexEcological Disturbancedisturbance ecology

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    Exaggerated Traits and Breeding Success in Widowbirds
    National Center for Case Study Teaching in Science- this interrupted case focuses on sexual selection in widowbirds.

    Keywords: Evolutionexperimental designsexual dimorphismsexual selectionNatural SelectionWidowbirdsbirdintrasexual selectionintersexual selectionhandicap hypothesis

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    How Many More Thymes? A Case of Phytochemical Defense
    National Center for Case Study Teaching in Science- this clicker case addresses several concepts related to the evolutionary ecology of herbivore defenses.

    Keywords: food websgenotypephenotypeHerbivoryherbivoredeterrencemonoterpeneproducerchemotypeThymus vulgaristhymeMediterranean ecosystemchemical defenses

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    The Evolution of Human Skin Color
    National Center for Case Study Teaching in Science- while the concept of evolution by natural selection is very simple, it is often misunderstood by students.

    Keywords: EvolutionNatural SelectionSkin pigmentationskin colorvitamin Dvitamin B folateultraviolet lightUV light

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    Selection and the Blond Beach Mouse
    National Center for Case Study Teaching in Science- this "clicker" case study explores ultimate and proximate explanations for cryptic coloration in animals.

    Keywords: Evolutionexperimental designadaptationmutationNatural Selectionultimate explanationproximate explanationevolutionary fitnessmelanincoat colorationcrypsisMc1rAgouticonvergence

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    ODD Description of the BEFORE Beech Forest Model
    This is a supplemental resource from ABM

    Keywords: case studytextbookNetLogoagent-based modelingODD protocol

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    Measuring the Health of the Earth Using the Theory of Island Biography
    This module uses a variety of available datasets to explore methods of calculating biodiversity and measuring landscape as well as the relationship between those.

    Keywords: moduleEvolutionecologycollege algebraearth scienceOceanographygeophysicalResources @ DIMACSResources @ QUBES - Teaching & Reference

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    Theory, models and biology
    Theoretical ideas have a rich history in many areas of biology, and new theories and mathematical models have much to offer in the future.

    Keywords: researchmathematical modelingtheoretical biologyResources @ QUBES - Teaching & Reference

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    Natural History Collections as Emerging Resources for Innovative Education
    Natural history collections have the potential to help transform undergraduate science education from passive learning into an active exploration of the natural world.

    Keywords: educationnatural historycollectionsdigital resourcesResources @ QUBES - Teaching & Reference

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    Joel E. Greengiant Learns About Peas: From Nucleotides to Selection
    This case study follows purveyors of peas, Joel E. and Jolene Greengiant, as they learn about the origin, biochemistry, genetics and eventual artificial selection of sweet (wrinkled) peas, all in...

    Keywords: geneticspopulation geneticsEvolutionintroductory biologycase studybiologyResources @ NSF - NCCSTSmeiosisMendel’s peaspea plantPisum sativumMendel’s Lawsmolecular geneticsmutationnucleotide insertionartificial selectionstarch synthesisstarch branching enzymeplant domesticationlegumesResources @ QUBES - Teaching & Reference

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