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1Lichens in Diverse Landscapes: EREN-NEON Flexible Learning Project 1Lichen Niches and Distributions Lab Activity

Authors

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1Danielle Garneau (SUNY Plattsburgh) 1Jessica Coyle ()
2Mary Beth Kolozsvary () 2Jessica Coyle ()
3Matthew Joshua Heard (Belmont University)   
4Megan A. Jones (National Ecological Observatory Network)   

Description

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1<p>Lichens are well-known sentinels of problems with air quality. This project makes use of publicly-available datasets on lichen presence and abundance and wet deposition, paired with geospatial data on air quality, tree canopy cover, and locally collected field data, to better understand how lichens respond to anthropogenic environmental pressures. Lichens will be related to environmental variables at a variety of spatial scales, from tree bark substrates to regional patterns of air quality. Students and instructors will explore and gain experience with GIS, NEON data, statistical analyses, and field data collection as part of this project. This project can be the subject of a course laboratory activity lasting between 1 and 3 weeks.&nbsp;</p> 1<p>This lab activity implements Modules 1 and 2 of the EREN-NEON Flexible Learning Project: Lichens in Diversity Landscapes. Please see the project webpage for links to their materials:&nbsp;<a href="http://erenweb.org/eren-neon-flexible-learning-projects/lichens-in-diverse-landscapes/">http://erenweb.org/eren-neon-flexible-learning-projects/lichens-in-diverse-landscapes</a>/</p>
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   3<p>This lab activity adaptation includes teaching notes and all necessary instructional materials for students. It includes three data sets based on publicly-available data that have been prepared for student use, along with instructions and R scripts for downloading preparing these data.</p>
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   5<p>Learning Objectives:</p>
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   8   <li>Explain how a species&rsquo; niche affects its distribution.</li>
   9   <li>Gain experience in species identification, morpho-species classification, and how to make abiotic and biotic measurements in field settings.</li>
   10   <li>Explore how bioindicator organisms can be used to assess land-use change, air pollution, and other environmental impacts.</li>
   11   <li>Explore how to use multi-site collaborative data to conduct regional and continental scale analyses to address ecological and macroecological questions.</li>
   12   <li>Conduct an observational study to distinguish among multiple hypotheses.</li>
   13   <li>Display relationships among categorical or continuous variables using figures that are appropriate for the data types.</li>
   14   <li>Evaluate whether a relationship exists between two variables using a statistical analysis that is appropriate for the data types.</li>
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Attachments

1 link — EREN - Lichens in Diverse Landscapes 1 file — Coyle_LichenDistributionsLab/Coyle_LichenDistributionsLabActivity.zip
2 file — LichensDiverseLandscapes.png 2 file — Coyle_LichenDistributionsLab/Xantoria cover image.jpg