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Order Up! Ecological Succession at Table Rock State Park in Pickens, South Carolina
Students are given photos of different phases of ecological succession that are from Table Rock State Park in Pickens, South Carolina. Using their knowledge of ecological succession, students arrange the photos in chronological order of the phases of succession.
Publisher: EcoEd Digital Library
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Leaves as Thermometers
Plant morphology reflects evolutionary solutions to environmental constraints. In this experiment, students use this principle to predict the climate at their site. They collect and measure a set of traits on local tree leaf samples during the first meeting. At the following meeting(s), they pool their data and are introduced to a global database of climate and leaf morphology. In groups, they...
Publisher: EcoEd Digital Library
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Geographic Gradients in Community Patterns of Forest Trees
This exercise, intended as homework or an in-class exercise, provides a guided inquiry approach to understanding continental scale patterns of species richness and patterns of relative abundance within community species assemblages. Students are introduced to the concept of latitudinal gradients in species richness. They are also introduced to the concept of evenness of relative abundances within...
Publisher: EcoEd Digital Library
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Writing an Ecological Research Proposal
This is a writing assignment that is broken up into steps that emulate the process of developing a novel scientific question and creating a research proposal to answer the question. The assignment is loosely based on the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program proposal and consists of all of the same pieces except for Broader Impacts. This assignment was developed for a course in plant ecology,...
Publisher: EcoEd Digital Library
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Move It or Lose It: Species Respond to a Warming World
In this activity students work in teams to examine a primary literature paper, understand statistical output, and interpret graphs. The paper provides crucial evidence on species shifts in latitude and elevation in response to climate change. Not only will students learn how to read and think critically, through discussion with their peers, they will also gain confidence in the ability to...
Publisher: EcoEd Digital Library
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