Tags: life history

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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

  6. 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