In this article the authors have created a hands-on laboratory exercise designed to illustrate the effects of pseudoreplication in experiments.
This article describes the history and events leading to the creation of an ecology supercourse at the University of California. It introduces the concept of this course and provides a course...
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This article derives the semelparity model in a novel, more intuitive manner.
This article describes an ecology lab class where students 'become' practicing research ecologists. This lab includes a proposal process, experiment phase, publishing phase, and research symposium.
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This article, originally published in the Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America, challenges and invites the ESA membership to think of new ways to improve college curricula to be more...
This article provides a comparison of guided, open-ended and teacher-collaborative teaching methods for ecology labs.
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This article provides useful techniques to model ecological processes using spreadsheets.
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