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Functional trait-based restoration. Can hybrid restoration enhance invasion resistance and ecosystem services?
27 Jul 2023 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):
By Rebecca Ostertag1, Nicole DiManno2
1. University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo 2. Oregon State University
A hybrid restoration experiment in Hilo, Hawaiʻi, in an area of high biocultural conservation value, that address the ecological and philosophical issues involved in conducting restoration with a...
https://qubeshub.org/publications/4483/?v=1
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Restoring tropical forests: Is planting clusters of trees a cost-effective and ecologically-sound strategy to restore tropical forest?
24 Jul 2023 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):
By Karen Holl1, Rakan Zahawi2
1. University of California, Santa Cruz 2. Charles Darwin Foundation, Galapagos Islands, Ecuador
This module (available in four languages) provides a broad introduction to both ecological and social aspects of tropical forest restoration. It focuses on a long-term study comparing three...
https://qubeshub.org/publications/4404/?v=2
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How We Help: Human elements of restoration ecology
10 Jun 2023 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):
By Sophia Anner1, Anna Sher2
1. University of Louisville 2. University of Denver
In this lesson, students recall the basics of restoration ecology, interpret and predict several graphs that explain restoration manager characteristics, and reflect on an interview with...
https://qubeshub.org/publications/4419/?v=1
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Restoring tropical forests: Is planting clusters of trees a cost-effective and ecologically-sound strategy to restore tropical forest?
02 Jun 2023 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):
By Karen Holl1, Rakan Zahawi2
1. University of California, Santa Cruz 2. Charles Darwin Foundation, Galapagos Islands, Ecuador
This module (available in four languages) provides a broad introduction to both ecological and social aspects of tropical forest restoration. It focuses on a long-term study comparing three...
https://qubeshub.org/publications/4404/?v=1
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MS Excel Refresher - Lizards, iguanas, and snakes! Oh my! | Data Nuggets
13 Jan 2023 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):
By Kristen Kaczynski
California State University - Chico
This resource, a MS Excel refresher, extends the level for this Data Nugget. Students are given an Excel workbook with the data and asked to graph and calculate diversity using Excel functions...
https://qubeshub.org/publications/3632/?v=1
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Topics in Restoration Ecology: Restoring the Red Wolf in North Carolina
02 Apr 2022 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):
By Zoë Swartley
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
The planet’s most endangered wolf is the red wolf, with only one wild population, a nonessential experimental group established in eastern North Carolina, of 15-17 individuals in existence as of...
https://qubeshub.org/publications/2907/?v=1
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Data, Distributions, and Hypotheses: Exploring Diversity and Disturbance in the Tallgrass Prairie
29 Aug 2021 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):
By Aakanksha Angra †1, Harmony J. Dalgleish ††2, Sally M. Chambers ††3, Diana Pita †4, Nancy C. Emery* †5
1. Georgia State University 2. College of William & Mary 3. Marie Selby Botanical Gardens 4. Purdue University 5. University of Colorado Boulder
Proper hypothesis generation, data handling, graphing, and communication are essential skills that undergraduate majors in biology are expected to master. However, students rarely get hands-on...
https://qubeshub.org/publications/2672/?v=1