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    Parasites -- They're what's for dinner: Investigating the role of parasites in aquatic food webs
    Use a well-resolved food web database from a freshwater wetland ecosystem in central California to explore how parasites influence community properties and learn how food webs are constructed and...

    Keywords: Resources @ ESA - TIEEparasitismDisease ecologyfmnDIGfood web ecologywetland communitiescomplex life cyclesnetwork modelingintroductory ecology

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    Biological Diversity in Wetlands: Applying the Scientific Method
    An introduction to the Scientific Method for Introductory Biology students using plant and animal richness and environmental data from ephemeral ponds and permanent wetlands.

    Keywords: Resources @ ESA - TIEEintroductory biologyscientific methodspecies richnessaquatic ecologyfmnDIGenvironmental variationMicrosoft Excelhabitat permanencyupper level wetland ecology

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    Environment-Richness Relationships in Ephemeral and Permanent Wetlands: Guided Inquiry with Graph Interpretation (Abstract) | TIEE
    An introduction to linear models using plant and animal richness-environment relationships in ephemeral ponds and permanent wetlands.

    Keywords: Resources @ ESA - TIEEintroductory biologyspecies richnessaquatic ecologyfmnDIGenvironmental variationhabitat permanencyupper level wetland ecology

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    Impact of Warming on Tidal Wetlands
    This lesson uses a t-test and ANOVA to determine if higher temperatures will have a significant impact on change in mangrove height, change in belowground biomass, and change in surface elevation...

    Keywords: climate changesea-level risesalt marshTidal WetlandElevation ChangeMangrove Forest

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    Fostering and sustaining interdisciplinary faculty communities around undergraduate teaching: Insights from the QUBES project
    Presentation part of a minisymposium at the SIAM Applied Mathematics Education (ED18) conference, "Communities of Practice for Math Modeling Education"

    Keywords: SIAMapplied mathematicsfaculty communities

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    Spotting Interactions: Spotted Salamanders, Beneficial Buffers, and Helpful Hydroperiods
    The purpose of this lesson is to help us better understand how we are able to conserve wetland-dependent wildlife. We will be exploring, manipulating, and analyzing data in R using a Poisson...

    Keywords: Poisson Distributionsalamandersvernal pools

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    Processes that Regulate Patterns of Species and Genetic Diversity
    TIEE Module- This activity was developed for an undergraduate upper level course for natural resources majors. Classes of 20 – 30 students work best for the activity.
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    Investigating Determinants of Richness in Ephemeral and Permanent Wetlands Using Linear Models in Shiny
    This resource seeks to provide a quantitative platform by which students can be taught about interactive effects using the TIEE module created by Little (2018). Key to the adaptation is the use of...

    Keywords: aquatic macroinvertebrateslinear regressionhypothesis testingshinywetlands

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    Fostering and Sustaining Interdisciplinary Faculty Communities Around Undergraduate Teaching: Insights from the QUBES Project
    Talk given as a part of the Symposium - Communities of Practice for Math Modeling Education at the SIAM 2018 Conference

    Keywords: SIAMQUBESfaculty communitiesResources @ MMHubResources @ SIAMEd 2018

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    Reaching Across Boundaries: Building Relationships, Sharing, & Learning Online
    Presentation given as part of a Minisymposium at BEER 2015.

    Keywords: social mediaCommunities of Practiceonline learning communities

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    Experiencing the Inclusive STEM Teaching Project through BioQUEST Learning Communities
    Poster presented at the NABT 2023 Conference in November 2023.

    Keywords: faculty learning communitiesInclusive teachingNABT2023

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    Experiencing the Inclusive STEM Teaching Project through BioQUEST Learning Communities
    Poster presented at the Gordon UBER Conference in June 2023

    Keywords: faculty learning communitiesInclusive teaching

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    Invasion, Restoration, and Response: Assessing changes in arthropod community assemblage using both parametric and non-parametric approaches
    This lesson, which is based around a recently published paper in the Journal of Ecological Applications, introduces students to both parametric and non-parametric approaches to statistical analysis...

    Keywords: ecologyANOVAInvasive Speciesspecies diversityquantitative analysisupper level wetland ecologysalt marshesarthropodsShannon diversity indexleast significant differences

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    Processes that Regulate Patterns of Species and Genetic Diversity
    This activity was developed for an undergraduate upper level ecology course for Environmental or Biological Science majors. Classes of ~20 students work best for the activity.
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    Designing an Asynchronous, Self-Led Aquatic Ecology Field Trip
    Due to the COVID-19 pandemic and increasing need to teach students online, aquatic scientists are looking for ways to give students field experiences virtually. Asynchronous, self-led field trips...

    Keywords: observationecosystem structureexploration

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    A discussion about tornado epidemiology with Dr. Kim Klockow McClain
    Are you ever curious about how tornados impact communities, which communities are most at risk, what are the determinants of fatality from tornados, and other related questions? Dr. Kim Klockow...

    Keywords: epidemiologyweathertornados

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    List of resources and support communities dedicated to biology undergraduate education
    Ecologists new to teaching and evidence-based teaching practices often feel alone and without support. There are resources and communities that can help them become better instructors and...

    Keywords: teaching resource

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    Map Your Hazards! – Assessing Hazards, Vulnerability and Risk
    The Map Your Hazards module provides students an interactive mechanism to engage in place-based exploration of natural hazards, social vulnerability, risk and the factors that shape their...

    Keywords: earth scienceenvironmental scienceglobal changenatural hazardsenvironmental studiesenvironmental sociologyResources @ InTeGrate

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    Social Justice & Community Change QUBES Faculty Mentoring Network 2021
    In this Faculty Mentoring Network we will examine the historical practice of redlining, and how social and economic factors over the last century have created disparities in environmental...

    Keywords: social justiceair qualityBIOME 2020redlining

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    Testing hypotheses about the role of wildfire in structuring avian communities
    This module assesses the role of wildfire in the eastern US and its impact on bird communities using NEON bird survey data from pre- and post- a major wildfire in the Great Smoky Mountains National...

    Keywords: data manipulationspecies richnessANOVAspecies diversitybirdswildfireBACI design

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