Ecology on Campus

Name: Ecology on Campus
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ISBN: 9780805382143

ISBN-10: 0805382143

ISBN-13: 9780805382143

Edition: 2006

Authors: Robert Kingsolver

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This flexible laboratory manual contains nearly 60 exercises involving small-scale ecological systems that can be conducted within a weekly lab period right on campus, regardless of weather or resources available. Each chapter explains a fundamental concept, and then gives three separate hands-on exercises that can involve outdoor observation and measurements on campus, laboratory systems, library research, biological collections, or computer resources. Additionally, calculation pages accompanying each lab walk students through standard mathematical modeling or statistical tools commonly used by ecologists to address the question at hand, building students' quantitative and critical…

Book details

List price: $126.65
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Pearson Education
Publication date: 12/29/2005
Binding: Comb Bound
Pages: 480
Size: 9.10" wide x 10.90" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 2.398
Language: English



Preface: Teaching and Learning Ecology in a Campus Environment



Describing a Population



Seed weights in legumes



Needle length in conifers



Allometric Relationships



Modeling size and shape relations



Heat exchange in beetles



Size and shape of trees



Estimating Population Size



Mark-recapture simulation



Mark-recapture estimate of a student population



Mark-recapture estimate of a mealworm population



Population Growth



Calculating r from a published data set



Comparing exponential and logistic growth



Population growth of yeasts



Demography



Demography simulation



Developing a life table from the alumni newsletter



Demography of campus trees



Population Genetics



Population genetics simulation



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