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- Ecological Core Concepts -- Human impacts -- Human population growth and consumption [X]
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Teaching Exponential and Logistic Growth in a Variety of Classroom and Laboratory Settings
Ecology and conservation biology contain numerous examples of
populations growing without bounds or shrinking towards extinction. For these
populations, the change in the number of individuals generally follows an
exponential curve. On the other hand, limited resources may keep population
numbers in check and help maintain the population at the environment's carrying
capacity. These...
Publisher: EcoEd Digital Library
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The Sustainable Use of Fisheries
The Evolution of Sustainable Use is a flash-based game that allows multiple players to simultaneously exploit a model fishery. The game presents a fishery as a metaphor for any communally-exploited resource. This imaginary fishery is scaled down so that the actions of 2-8 players influence the sustainability of the system. In the game “boats” represent the unit of fishing effort, and ea...
Publisher: EcoEd Digital Library
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A Bird’s Eye View of Changing Landscapes: Using Google Earth to Explore Changing Landscapes
Students use Google Earth and satellite imagery from the United Nations Environmental Programme’s Atlas of our Changing Environment to discover ways in which landscapes change over time due to human actions and natural forces. By analyzing patterns in current and historical satellite images from locations around the world, students explore various types of landscape change and predict potentia...
Publisher: EcoEd Digital Library
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Agapostemon sweat bee
As global food demand increases, farmers are increasingly relying on single, managed bee species (often honey bees) to pollinate their crops. However, honey bees are not the best pollinators for all crops, and honey bee colonies have recently been experiencing health problems, notably colony collapse disorder. Recent research has shown that promoting a diversity of wild insect pollinators – suc...
Publisher: EcoEd Digital Library
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http://www.esajournals.org/doi/abs/10.1890/130330
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Redlining and Environmental Justice
In this lesson, we explore the inequity that exists in environmental health and nature because of changes we, humans, have made in our environment. Typically, people who have access to nature are generally healthier and have reduced incidences of respiratory illnesses (e.g., asthma), decreased blood pressure, and decreased chance of depression. Unfortunately, highly urbanized areas have higher...
Publisher: EcoEd Digital Library
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