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1. Data management and introduction to QGIS and RStudio for spatial analysis

   22 May 2020 | Datasets | Contributor(s):

   By Meghan Graham MacLean

   University of Massachusetts Amherst

   Students learn about the importance of good data management and begin to explore QGIS and RStudio for spatial analysis purposes. Students will explore National Land Cover Database raster data and...

   https://qubeshub.org/publications/1858/?v=1

2. Identifying Groundwater Discharge Dynamics into Stream Habitat Assessments

   06 Jan 2023 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

   By Danielle Hare

   University of Connecticut

   Groundwater contributions are overlooked in many habitat assessments, even though their ecological and water quality importance to streams has been broadly recognized. This lab encourages students...

   https://qubeshub.org/publications/3600/?v=1

3. Investigating human impacts on stream ecology: locally and nationally

   28 May 2020 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

   By Meghan Graham MacLean

   University of Massachusetts Amherst

   This is a modification of an original TIEE Module, investigating these questions: How does nutrient pollution impact stream ecosystems locally and nationally? How does land cover change impact...

   https://qubeshub.org/publications/1868/?v=1

4. Learning the Landscape: An Active and Applied Lesson on Landscape Ecology for General Ecology Courses

   27 Jun 2024 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

   By Erin G. Rowland-Schaefer*¹, Brianna Negrete McGinley¹, Heather E. Bergan-Roller¹

   Northern Illinois University

   Landscape ecology is an important subtopic of ecology. As a field, it is inherently interdisciplinary and provides opportunities to teach not only content, but transferable ecological and...

   https://qubeshub.org/publications/4703/?v=1

5. NELF Explorer: Drivers of Landscape Change

   28 May 2020 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

   By Meghan Graham MacLean

   University of Massachusetts Amherst

   Students explore the connections between land use decisions and land cover change, as well as how to predict the possible impacts of land use decisions into the future.

   https://qubeshub.org/publications/1867/?v=1

6. NEON Data in the Classroom: Quantifying Spatial Patterns

   23 Jul 2020 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

   By Kusum Naithani

   University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR 72701

   Students build on fundamental concepts of spatial patterns and combine this knowledge with the open-data from the National Ecological Observatory Network to quantify spatial autocorrelation and...

   https://qubeshub.org/publications/1398/?v=1