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Evaluating Local Adaptation and Conservation with Life Tables
05 Sep 2024 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):
By Urmi Poddar1, Jessica Coyle2
1. Stony Brook University 2. Saint Mary's College of California
This module contains a sequence of activities designed for an undergraduate ecology lesson on stage-structured population models or life tables that use published data. Two versions are provided:...
https://qubeshub.org/publications/4896/?v=1
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Leslie/Lefkovitch Matrix Models for Age or Stage-structured Populations
18 Aug 2024 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):
By John Jungck1, Jennifer Spangenberg1
Beloit College
This Excel workbook uses the Leslie matrix model for population projection of age-class structured populations, and also allows Lefkovitch matrix models for stage-class structured populations.
https://qubeshub.org/publications/4953/?v=1
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Population Ecology of the Northern Spotted Owl
22 Aug 2023 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):
By Sean P. Streich*1, John M. Basey1
University of Colorado, Boulder
The mathematical modeling of populations utilizing field-collected demographic data is an important component of lab curricula in a variety of undergraduate biology lab courses. During the global...
https://qubeshub.org/publications/4492/?v=1
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Module M.5 Linear mixed-effects models
26 Jun 2023 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):
By Raisa Hernández-Pacheco1, Alexandra L Bland1, Alexis A Diaz1, Alexandra G Rosati2
1. California State University, Long Beach 2. University of Michigan
Introduction to Primate Data Exploration and Linear Modeling with R was created with the goal of providing training to undergraduate biology students on data management and statistical analysis...
https://qubeshub.org/publications/4434/?v=1
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Module M.1 R basics for data exploration and management
26 Jun 2023 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):
By Raisa Hernández-Pacheco1, Alexandra L Bland1
California State University, Long beach
Introduction to Primate Data Exploration and Linear Modeling with R was created with the goal of providing training to undergraduate biology students on data management and statistical analysis...
https://qubeshub.org/publications/4430/?v=1
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Introduction to Primate Data Exploration and Linear Modeling with R
26 Jun 2023 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):
By Raisa Hernández-Pacheco1, Alexandra L Bland1, Alexis A. Diaz1, Alexandra G Rosati2, Stephanie J Gonzalez1
1. California State University, Long Beach 2. University of Michigan
Introduction to Primate Data Exploration and Linear Modeling with R was created with the goal of providing training to undergraduate biology research students on data management and statistical...
https://qubeshub.org/publications/4418/?v=1
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Module M.8 Survival analysis
26 Jun 2023 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):
By Stephanie J. Gonzalez1, Raisa Hernández-Pacheco1
California State University, Long Beach
Introduction to Primate Data Exploration and Linear Modeling with R was created with the goal of providing training to undergraduate biology students on data management and statistical analysis...
https://qubeshub.org/publications/4441/?v=1
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Module M.7 Generalized linear mixed-effects models
16 Jun 2023 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):
By Alexandra L Bland1, Raisa Hernández-Pacheco1
California State University, Long Beach
Introduction to Primate Data Exploration and Linear Modeling with R was created with the goal of providing training to undergraduate biology students on data management and statistical analysis...
https://qubeshub.org/publications/4436/?v=1
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Module M.6 Generalized linear models
16 Jun 2023 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):
By Alexis A Diaz1, Raisa Hernández-Pacheco1, Alexandra L Bland1, Alexandra G Rosati2
1. California State University, Long Beach 2. University of Michigan
Introduction to Primate Data Exploration and Linear Modeling with R was created with the goal of providing training to undergraduate biology students on data management and statistical analysis...
https://qubeshub.org/publications/4435/?v=1
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Module M.4 Simple linear regression analysis
16 Jun 2023 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):
By Raisa Hernández-Pacheco1, Alexandra L Bland1
California State University, Long Beach
Introduction to Primate Data Exploration and Linear Modeling with R was created with the goal of providing training to undergraduate biology students on data management and statistical analysis...
https://qubeshub.org/publications/4433/?v=1
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Module M.3 Visualizing data with ggplot2
16 Jun 2023 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):
By Raisa Hernández-Pacheco1, Alexandra Bland1
California State University, Long Beach
Introduction to Primate Data Exploration and Linear Modeling with R was created with the goal of providing training to undergraduate biology students on data management and statistical analysis...
https://qubeshub.org/publications/4432/?v=1
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Module M.2 Descriptive statistics
15 Jun 2023 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):
By Raisa Hernández-Pacheco1, Alexandra L Bland1
California State University, Long beach
Introduction to Primate Data Exploration and Linear Modeling with R was created with the goal of providing training to undergraduate biology students on data management and statistical analysis...
https://qubeshub.org/publications/4431/?v=1
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How Many Squirrels Are in the Shrubs? A Lesson Plan for Comparing Methods for Population Estimation
30 Aug 2021 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):
By Johanna Varner*1, Hayley C. Lanier2, Jennifer M. Duggan3, Laurie Dizney4, Elizabeth A. Flaherty5, Patrice K. Connors1, Liesl P. Erb6, Christopher J. Yahnke7, John D. Hanson8
1. Colorado Mesa University 2. University of Oklahoma 3. California State University, Monterey Bay 4. University of Portland 5. Purdue University 6. Warren Wilson College 7. University of Wisconsin, Stevens Point 8. Institute for Biodiversity Research and Education
Estimating the population sizes of animals is a key skill for any student interested in ecology, conservation, or management. However, counting animals in natural habitats is difficult, and the...
https://qubeshub.org/publications/2741/?v=1
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An active-learning lesson that targets student understanding of population growth in ecology
27 Aug 2021 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):
By Elizabeth Trenckmann1, Michelle Smith1, Karen Nicole Pelletreau1, Mindi M. Summers2
1. University of Maine 2. University of Maine, University of Calgary
Effective teaching and learning of population ecology requires integration of quantitative literacy skills. To facilitate student learning in population ecology and provide students with the...
https://qubeshub.org/publications/2587/?v=1
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A first lesson in mathematical modeling for biologists: Rocs
26 Aug 2021 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):
By Anne-Marie Hoskinson
South Dakota State University
Using a fictitious population of Rocs, a mythical species of giant raptor, students accomplish two broad objectives: 1) they undertake the process of building a first mathematical model of a...
https://qubeshub.org/publications/2560/?v=1
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Case Study - Storks vs Babies
11 Nov 2020 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):
By Carrie Diaz Eaton
Bates College and QUBES
This is a R project based on the Robert Matthews paper Storks vs Babies. The idea is to replicate the results of the paper, learn a bit about R for linear fits and graphing and explore correlation...
https://qubeshub.org/publications/2123/?v=1
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An introduction to population matrix models: a swirl lesson
15 Jun 2020 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):
By Jennifer Apple
SUNY Geneseo
Students will learn how to set up a population matrix model in R and use it for demographic analysis of a population, including projecting population growth, determining lambda and the stable age...
https://qubeshub.org/publications/1926/?v=1
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Modification of "Exploring the population dynamics of wintering bald eagles through long-term data" module
30 May 2019 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):
By Kaitlin Stack Whitney
Rochester Institute of Technology
This module is a modification of the Beckstead et al. module in TIEE Volume 7. It includes a meta-cognition based model and self reflection, no statistics, and is organized to be done in 1-2...
https://qubeshub.org/publications/1164/?v=1
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Exploring the population dynamics of wintering bald eagles through long-term data
21 May 2019 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):
By Valerie Greene
Diablo Valley College
pptx presentation & partially filled out student proposal worksheet
https://qubeshub.org/publications/1143/?v=1
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Exploring the population dynamics of wintering bald eagles through long-term data using R
21 May 2019 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):
By Kristen Kaczynski
California State University - Chico
The purpose of this modification was to take the analyses that were done in Excel and have the students perform them using R. Students were not given any R code for this activity, as R code was...
https://qubeshub.org/publications/1158/?v=1