This activity is an opportunity for students to explore civil government and …
This activity is an opportunity for students to explore civil government and to present what they have learned about electric power generation in a persuasive manner
In this video adapted from Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, learn about …
In this video adapted from Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, learn about the prairie dog, the importance of its role in its ecosystem, and how it is affected by an ever-growing human population.
Spreadsheets Across the Curriculum activity/Introductory Ecology course. Students build and manipulate spreadsheets …
Spreadsheets Across the Curriculum activity/Introductory Ecology course. Students build and manipulate spreadsheets to model and graph populations using the Lotka-Volterra predator-prey equations.
What effect do interactions between species have on the sizes of the …
What effect do interactions between species have on the sizes of the populations involved? Learn about the dynamics of predator and prey populations, and how they can influence one another’s patterns of growth and decline.
This activity is a simulation that illustrates how population sizes are affected …
This activity is a simulation that illustrates how population sizes are affected by predator-prey relationships and competitive interactions among prey.
A Primer of Evolution is an open educational resource designed for upper-level …
A Primer of Evolution is an open educational resource designed for upper-level college students. It provides a succinct introduction to evolutionary thought revolving around theory, evidence, and practice: - It introduces some of the theoretical cornerstones and core concepts of modern evolutionary biology. The goal is for students to be able to apply these concepts and articulate testable hypotheses that explain natural phenomena from an evolutionary perspective. - It highlights the diversity of empirical approaches and lines of evidence that scientists use to address evolutionary hypotheses. - It helps students to practice approaching problems like scientists and evaluate data to address evolutionary hypotheses. To do so, students learn how to program in R to analyze and visualize data and articulate your interpretations and conclusions.
Each chapter provides a conceptual introduction to the topic and includes R-based exercises that allow students to visualize relevant datasets to practice the testing of evolutionary hypotheses. To help with the R exercises, each chapter also provides additional background on case studies and R programming tutorials that help students to develop the necessary skills.
Chapters: What Evolution Is Evidence for Evolution A Mechanism for Change The Raw Materials for Evolution Evolutionary Mechanisms I: Modeling Selection Evolutionary Mechanisms II: Mutation, Genetic Drift, Migration, and Non-Random Mating Evolution of DNA Sequences Evolution of Quantitative Traits Adaptation and Phenotypic Plasticity Social Behavior and Sexual Selection Speciation Evolutionary Medicine I: Aging and Diseases of Civilizations Evolutionary Medicine II: Evolving Pathogens Human Evolution
This course presents the principles of evolution, ecology, and behavior for students …
This course presents the principles of evolution, ecology, and behavior for students beginning their study of biology and of the environment. It discusses major ideas and results in a manner accessible to all Yale College undergraduates. Recent advances have energized these fields with results that have implications well beyond their boundaries: ideas, mechanisms, and processes that should form part of the toolkit of all biologists and educated citizens.
Overview of how local and global policies can help protect biodiversity. Video …
Overview of how local and global policies can help protect biodiversity. Video by California Academy of Sciences. Created by California Academy of Sciences.
This is an in-depth activity that focuses on Wisconsin ecosystem characteristics and …
This is an in-depth activity that focuses on Wisconsin ecosystem characteristics and energy flow within ecosystems. The activity is lengthy, but selected parts of it could be adapted to a variety of teaching situations.
Quantitative Ecology introduces and discusses the principles of ecology from populations to …
Quantitative Ecology introduces and discusses the principles of ecology from populations to ecosystems including human populations, disease, exotic organisms, habitat fragmentation, biodiversity and global dynamics. The book also reformulates and unifies ecological equations making them more accessible to the reader and easier to teach.
We use eigenvector-eigenvalue analysis to walk through a simple quasispecies model described …
We use eigenvector-eigenvalue analysis to walk through a simple quasispecies model described in Bull, Meyers, and Lachmann, "Quasispecies made simple," PLoS Comp Biol, 1(6):e61 (2005). The dominance of a genotype depends, not merely on its ability to breed quickly (i.e. the rudimentary concept of survival of the fittest), but also on its ability to breed "true."
This fun Web site is part of OLogy, where kids can collect …
This fun Web site is part of OLogy, where kids can collect virtual trading cards and create projects with them. The site opens by telling kids that people have learned to change the food we eat. The first comic strip looks at a farmer who works to produce a larger, redder, tastier tomato. The second comic strip tells kids about genetic modification and imagines a scientist putting the flounder's "anti-freeze" gene inside the DNA of a tomato. Food for Thought presents kids with two scenarios about genetically modified food, asking them if they think they're good ideas.
We surveyed 807 researchers (494 ecologists and 313 evolutionary biologists) about their …
We surveyed 807 researchers (494 ecologists and 313 evolutionary biologists) about their use of Questionable Research Practices (QRPs), including cherry picking statistically significant results, p hacking, and hypothesising after the results are known (HARKing). We also asked them to estimate the proportion of their colleagues that use each of these QRPs. Several of the QRPs were prevalent within the ecology and evolution research community. Across the two groups, we found 64% of surveyed researchers reported they had at least once failed to report results because they were not statistically significant (cherry picking); 42% had collected more data after inspecting whether results were statistically significant (a form of p hacking) and 51% had reported an unexpected finding as though it had been hypothesised from the start (HARKing). Such practices have been directly implicated in the low rates of reproducible results uncovered by recent large scale replication studies in psychology and other disciplines. The rates of QRPs found in this study are comparable with the rates seen in psychology, indicating that the reproducibility problems discovered in psychology are also likely to be present in ecology and evolution.
Long Description: This book is a collection of stories from the field …
Long Description: This book is a collection of stories from the field and resources for new and intermediate beekeepers interwoven with my own experience as a beekeeper over the last decade.
As much as possible in this text, we aim to avoid unnecessary jargon or lingo. So, it doesn’t require a master’s degree to decipher. The goal is to make the beekeeping stories, tools and strategies accessible, and to share practices and examples of all the lessons we can learn from the hive. The intention is that the resources will be adapted or inspire you to co-create new resources.
Word Count: 36246
ISBN: 978-1-945764-16-5
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Short Description: Rangeland Ecosystems of the Western US conveys fundamentals of autecology …
Short Description: Rangeland Ecosystems of the Western US conveys fundamentals of autecology and synecology and general information about the primary ecosystems covered. Its structure will provide a framework that can be applied to understand and analyze any arid shrubland, desert, or woodland savanna. Data dashboard
Word Count: 32595
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