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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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    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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    Between a rock and a hard place. What can turning rocks tell us about land-use change impacts on animals living in a rock outcrop?
    Unique rock outcrops in the Western Ghats biodiversity hotspot in India provide a setting that challenges students to develop a study to assess the impact of land-use change on threatened animals...

    Keywords: conservationagricultureland useamphibianstropicalbiodiversity losslateritic outcropopen natural ecosystemsreptilesrocks

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    Constructing Phylogenies using Herbarium Specimens
    This lab is intended as an introduction to a plant systematics course. Students work in groups of two to apply what they have learned about plant structures to develop a character matrix based on a...

    Keywords: botanyphylogenyherbariumdistance learningPlant systematicscharacter matrix

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    Sorting through the Data
    Meet Thomas McElrath, a insect collection manager at the Illinois Natural History Survey and beetle researcher. Tommy explains the value of data standards while discussing beetles and variations...

    Keywords: data standardssexdata skillsBiodiversity data usage

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    GSD QUBES Resource Draft (1)
    This QUBES module is focused towards AP Environmental studies courses. It includes hypothesis testing, transect sampling, Shannon Diversity Index, and scatter plot and bar graph creation in excel.

    Keywords: Community EcologyField researchspidersMicrosoft ExcelShannon diversity index

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    2015-Doust-Saraj-The logistic modeling population having harvesting factor
    The present paper deals with the logistic equation having harvesting factor, which is studied in two cases constant and non-constant.

    Keywords: logisticharvestharvesting factor

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    2012-Yuan_Yuan-A coupled plankton system with instantaneous and delayed predation
    We present two simple plankton population models: one has instantaneous predation, another has delayed predation.

    Keywords: phytoplanktonbifurcationorbitsherbivorous zooplanktoneffect of fishmaturation time delay

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    2005-Saifullah-Mathematical Modeling With Differential Equations
    This article aims to provide the students some basic modeling skills, which will have applications to a wide variety of problems.

    Keywords: species interactionsword equationinteractive software

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    1957-Axelrod_ Brady_Witkop_Evarts-The Distribution and Metabolism of Lysergic Acid Diethylamide
    The development of a specific and sensitive method for the estimation of LSD in biological materials has enabled us to study the tissue distribution, excretion, rate of biotransformation, and...

    Keywords: mathematical modeldataLSDMetabolismbloodstreamlysergic acid diethylamidedistribution

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    1-087-ThanosPopulationDynamics-ModelingScenario
    In the end of the “Avengers Infinity War,” the villain Thanos snaps his fingers and turns half of all living creatures to dust with the hope of restoring balance to the natural world. How does this...

    Keywords: logisticexponentialpopulationThanos

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    How amphibians are impacted by Chytridiomycosis with Keely Rodriguez
    Keely Rodriguez is a Ph.D. student at the University of Nevada Reno in the Ecology, Evolution, and Conservation Biology department. In this interview, Keely discusses her background and her...

    Keywords: Disease ecologyamphibians

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    Ecology/Environmental Biology Molecular Case Studies for Molecular CaseNet - YouTube
    Biome Institute 2021, Fall Working Group Summary Video

    Keywords: climate changebiofilmcoffeecoral bleachingMolecular structuremolecular visualizationMolecular Case Studycholera

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    BIRDD Presentation at NABT November 2021
    This publication captures parts of the BIRDD workshop at NABT in November 2021. It contains the workshop slides and links to two hands-on BIRDD activities.

    Keywords: EvolutionGalapagos

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    A Little Off The Top: The Effects Of Mountiantop Removal Mining On Salamanders
    This lesson will provide an explanation of mountaintop removal mining, and potential harms associated with it. Then the lesson will move into a statistical analysis of salamanders living in streams...

    Keywords: ANOVAsalamandersalamandersmountaintopmining

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    Climate Drivers of Phenology Across Scales (adapted during Project EDDIE FMN)
    This activity explores the question: how is bumblebee phenology affected by climate, and are patterns in the phenology of an organism better explained at smaller scales?
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    Bioinformatics: Food Detective – a Practical Guide
    This Practical Guide in the Bringing Bioinformatics into the Classroom series introduces the idea of computers as tools to help understand aspects of biology.
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    Encouraging student collaboration and networking and improving student access to undergraduate research opportunities.
    We describe, as a case study, work done by two undergraduate students on a specific enzyme in the ciliate Tetrahymena thermophila.

    Keywords: undergraduate researchstudent researchenzymes

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    Caribbean coral reef structure and biodiversity - Comparing boosted regression tree & multiple regression approaches
    Creating and comparing boosted regression tree models to multiple regression models.
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    That Vertebrate Ate What Exactly?
    During the course of this lesson, students will analyze CT scan data and observe bycatch (or an unknown discovery) captured during the scanning process of vertebrates.

    Keywords: EvolutionidigbioAP Biologynatural history collections3D modelsanatomy and physiology#NGSSVertebrate MorphologyCT scanoVert

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