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1. Cold blood and wet skin in hot and dry secondary forests. How do amphibian traits determine persistence in secondary forests?

   23 Apr 2024 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

   By Michael Britton¹, Michelle Thompson²

   1. Arizona State University 2. San Diego Natural History Museum

   Students will synthesize information from biological and physiological traits of amphibians and characteristics of secondary forests in the tropics to form hypotheses about persistence of...

   https://qubeshub.org/publications/4726/?v=1

2. Life Is Just a Game: An Active Learning Activity to Teach Life History Evolution

   29 Aug 2021 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

   By Clinton T. Laidlaw*¹, Jamie L. Jensen**¹

   Brigham Young University

   A novel activity was designed to introduce students to the concepts of natural selection and life history using an active-learning, constructivist format. It consisted of two parts: 1) a brief...

   https://qubeshub.org/publications/2685/?v=1

3. Life in Urban Environments: The Impact of Urbanization on Life-History Traits in Amphibian Species

   13 May 2021 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

   By Madison Whitehurst

   This lesson focuses on urbanization and its negative effects on species, specifically amphibians. The lesson will also provide hands-on statistical analyses and critical thinking questions to...

   https://qubeshub.org/publications/2364/?v=1

4. Data from: Advancing population ecology with integral projection models: a practical guide

   23 Oct 2018 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

   By Cory Merow, Johan Dahlgren, Jessica Metcalf, Dylan Childs, Margaret Evans, Eelke Jongejans, Sydne Record, Mark Rees, Roberto Salguero-Gómez, Sean McMahon

   Review important resources for building IPMs and provide a comprehensive guide, with extensive R code, for their construction.

   https://qubeshub.org/publications/853/?v=1

5. Advancing population ecology with integral projection models: a practical guide

   20 Oct 2018 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

   By Cory Merow¹, Johan Dahlgren², Jessica Metcalf³, Dylan Childs⁴, Margaret Evans⁵, Eelke Jongejans⁶, Sydne Record⁷, Mark Rees⁴, Roberto Salguero-Gómez⁸, Sean McMahon⁹

   1. Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, USA 2. Department of Ecology, Environment and Plant Sciences, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden 3. Department of Zoology, Oxford University, Oxford, UK 4. Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK 5. Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research and Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA 6. Department of Animal Ecology and Ecophysiology, Institute for Water and Wetland Research, Radboud University Nijmegen, Nijmegen, The Netherlands 7. Harvard University, Harvard Forest, Petersham, MA, USA 8. Centre for Biodiversity and Conservation Science, University of Queensland, St Lucia, Qld, Australia 9. Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, Edgewater, MD, Edgewater, MD, USA

   Integral projection models (IPMs) use information on how an individual's state influences its vital rates – survival, growth and reproduction – to make population projections using regression...

   https://qubeshub.org/publications/824/?v=1

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8. Survivorship in the Natural World

   09 Jan 2018 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

   By Anne Bronikowski¹, Jeanne Altmann², Diane Brockman³, Marina Cords⁴, Linda Fedigan⁵, Anne Pusey⁶, Tara Stoinski⁷, William Morris⁶, Karen Strier⁸, Susan Alberts⁶, Samantha Swauger⁹

   1. Iowa State University 2. Princeton University 3. Messiah College 4. Columbia University 5. University of Calgary 6. Duke University 7. Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund 8. University of Wisconsin - Madison 9. DryadLab

   Data driven curriculum module from Dryad Digital Repository

   https://qubeshub.org/publications/273/?v=1

9. Data from: Advancing population ecology with integral projection models: a practical guide

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   23 Jan 2015 | | Contributor(s):: Cory Merow, Johan Dahlgren, Jessica Metcalf, Dylan Childs, Margaret Evans, Eelke Jongejans, Sydne Record, Mark Rees, Roberto Salguero-Gómez, Sean McMahon

   This resource has been updated - find the current version here: https://qubeshub.org/qubesresources/publications/853Integral Projection Models (IPMs) use information on how an individual's state influences its vital rates - survival, growth and reproduction - to make population...

10. Advancing population ecology with integral projection models: a practical guide

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    23 Jan 2015 | | Contributor(s):: Cory Merow, Johan Dahlgren, Jessica Metcalf, Dylan Childs, Margaret Evans, Eelke Jongejans, Sydne Record, Mark Rees, Roberto Salguero-Gómez, Sean McMahon

    This resource has been updated - find the current version here: https://qubeshub.org/qubesresources/publications/824Integral projection models (IPMs) use information on how an individual's state influences its vital rates – survival, growth and reproduction – to...