Forests play an important role in the U.S. and global carbon cycle, and carbon sequestered by U.S. forest growth and harvested wood products currently offsets 12-19% of U.S. fossil fuel emissions. The cycle of forest growth, death, and regeneration and the use of wood removed from the forest complicate efforts to understand and measure forest carbon pools and flows. Our report explains these...
ISSUES: DATA SET Exploring the population dynamics of wintering bald eagles through long-term data
THE ECOLOGICAL QUESTION:
How does a bald eagle population change over time at a winter migratory stopover and which factors influence its abundance?
WHAT STUDENTS DO:
Guided Approach: Students will generate questions about bald eagle numbers influenced by weather and food availability....
To investigate how species, communities, and habitats change over the rural-urban (or pristine to human-dominated) gradient students conduct a series of biological inventories, field measurements, taxonomic keying out, natural history classifications, landscape classifications, statistical analyses, and a literature review. Each laboratory session will be geared towards one or several of these...
Photo of a hatchling loggerhead sea turtle (Caretta caretta) entering the surf on a beach in South Carolina. After hatching, juvenile sea turtles are guided to the ocean by celestial light reflecting off the ocean. Artificial light disrupts this process and serves to reduce reproductive success in loggerheads.
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