,Title,Keywords,Summary,"Content Level","Study Location" """type"":""text_large"", ""align"":""left"", ""desc"":"""", ""width"":""150""","""type"":""text_large"", ""align"":""left"", ""desc"":"""", ""width"":""150""","""type"":""text_large"", ""align"":""left""","""type"":""text_large"", ""align"":""left""","""type"":""int"", ""align"":""right""","""type"":""text_large"", ""align"":""left""" DATASTART "","Won’t you be my urchin?","coral reef, herbivory, marine, sea urchin, water, animals, competition","Corals are the most important reef animals since they build the reef for all of the other animals to live in. But corals only like to live in certain places. In particular they hate living near algae because the algae and coral compete for the space they both need to grow. Perhaps if there are more vegetarians, like urchins, eating algae on the reef then corals would have less competition and more space to grow.",1,"Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary, Texas" "","Which guy should she choose?","animal behavior, animals, fish, mating","Mating behavior is intriguing to study because in many animal species, males use a lot of energy to attract a female. Yet some males are able to attract zero females and other males attract many females. What accounts for this difference? What about the way a male looks, moves, or smells attracts the female? A female could benefit from identifying “high quality” males that would serve as a good father to her offspring or that would make offspring that are attractive to females in the next generation.",2,"Michigan State University lab and British Columbia, Canada" "","What do trees know about rain?","climate change, dendrochronology, ecology, plants, precipitation, temperature, water","The typical climate of arid northwest Australia consists of long drought periods with a few very wet years sprinkled in. Scientists predict that climate change will cause these cycles to become more extreme – droughts will become longer and periods of rain will become wetter. When variability is the norm, how can scientists tell if the climate is changing and droughts and rain events today are more intense than what we've seen in the past? The answer to this challenge comes from trees!",3,"Pilbara region, northwest Australia"