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    The Hidden Kingdom: Island Biogeography with Fungi
    In this activity, students will explore a dataset of fungi dispersal capabilities and colonizing success to test the predictions of island biogeography theory.

    Keywords: Island biogeographyfungi

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    Climate Change Connections
    This module is composed of three related activities that introduce students to climate change's complexity from a conceptual standpoint. In the first activity, students work in small groups to...

    Keywords: interdisciplinaryclimate changeconcept mapping

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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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    Investigating the footprint of climate change on phenology and ecological interactions in north-central North America
    Practice module included in Teaching Issues and Experiments in Ecology (TIEE) Volume 10

    Keywords: Resources @ ESA - TIEEclimate changephenologyspecies diversityproblem set

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    Global Temperature Change in the 21st Century (Abstract) | TIEE
    Module for practice included in Teaching Issues and Experiments in Ecology (TIEE) Volume 7

    Keywords: Resources @ ESA - TIEEclimate changeglobal changeabiotic environment

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    Climate Change Effects on Lake Temperatures (Project EDDIE)
    Students explore new modeling and computing tools while learning fundamental concepts about how climate change will affect lakes

    Keywords: climate changeProject EDDIElakes

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    An Active Textbook Converts "Vision and Tweak" to Vision and Change
    Multiple reports over more than a century have documented the problems with the way introductory biology has been taught in most colleges and universities. An influential recent report, Vision and...

    Keywords: Vision and Changeactive learningintroductory biologyFlipped classroomUndergraduatecore competenciescore conceptsactive textbookcurriculum reform

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    Understanding Global Climate Change: Present, Past, and Future
    Understanding global climate change through the lenses of the present, past, and future, combining modern technology and indigenous knowledge and ways of knowing.

    Keywords: climate changeglobal changeabiotic environmentindigenous knowledge

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    Global Temperature Change in the 21st Century (Abstract) | TIEE
    Module for practice included in Teaching Issues and Experiments in Ecology (TIEE) Volume 7

    Keywords: Resources @ ESA - TIEEassessmentclimate changeglobal changeabiotic environment

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    2004-Ledzewicz-Schattler-Application of Control Theory in Modelling Cancer Chemotherapy
    In this paper we discuss how to incorporate more realistic medical aspects of chemotherapy which hitherto have been neglected in the models.

    Keywords: optimal controldrug resistancepharmacokineticspharmacodynamicschemotherapy

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    1987-Claude-Marmasse-Studies on differential equations of enzyme kinetics-Biomolecular scheme
    The integral curve is compared with the solutions given by the two classical approximations to the problem: it is shown that the steady-state approximation is to be preferred to the rapid...

    Keywords: steady-state modelisoclinesenzyme kinetics

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    2002-Faia-Differential Equation Modeling as a Source of Theoretical Insight-Four Disparate Examples
    We explore differential equations involving alcoholism, social mobility, excess female mortality, and international arms competition.

    Keywords: sociologyarms racesaccumulative advantagealcoholismPeter Principlefemale mortalitypopulation pressureoccupational mobilitysocial mobilityRichardson theory of war

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    2008-Chernyshov-EtAl-The Problem of Modelling of Economic Dynamics in Differential Form
    The authors have tried to analyze procedures of the construction of differential equations that are employed for modeling of macroeconomic processes. The results prove to be rather unexpected.

    Keywords: Fredholm integral equation ofLeontief’s modelmacroeconomic processes

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    2014-Bozkurt-Peker-Mathematical modelling of HIV epidemic and stability analysis
    A nonlinear mathematical model of differential equations with piecewise constant arguments is proposed. This model is analyzed by using the theory of both differential and difference equations to...

    Keywords: diseaselogisticHIVpiecewise constantIndia

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    Investigating the footprint of climate change on phenology and ecological interactions in north-central North America
    This is an FMN participant supplement for the TIEE module "Investigating the footprint of climate change on phenology and ecological interactions in north-central North America," authored...

    Keywords: ecologyLabEcological Society of AmericafmnLectureUndergraduateData DiscoveryInstructional SettingAudience LevelAdvancedActivity LengthMore than 1 hour

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    Aquatic Nutrient Levels and Climate Change
    This learning module was designed to introduce students to the aquatic nutrients nitrogen and phosphorus, their roles in ecosystem function and nutrient pollution, and what impacts climate change...

    Keywords: climate changenitrogenwater resourcesfreshwater systemsEutrophicationwater qualitynutrient pollutionphosphorusdischargeTMDL

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    Regulating Carbon Emissions
    Learn how to incorporate these teaching materials into your class. Find out what's included with each module. Learn how it can be adapted to work in your classroom.

    Keywords: climate changeenvironment

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    Climate Change
    This video describes the basic science of climate change. How do we know about climate in the past? What are humans interfering with? How can we make predictions about what will happen in the future?

    Keywords: videosclimate changeScience Forward

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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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    Climate Change Module (Project EDDIE): Instructor Implementation
    This details an implementation of the climate change module, where students explore how climate is using data. Produced by Project EDDIE.
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