Aiptasia pallida as a Model for Coral Reef Bleaching
Using Aiptasia pallida, the tropical pale sea anemone, students can study coral reef bleaching by measuring the effects of various environmental factors on zooxanthellae, photosynthetic symbi...

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A Comparative Study of the Demography of Human Populations
In this exercise students evaluate and discuss the social implications of biological information and principles. Each small group collects demographic data about a country of their choice from three d...

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A Field Study of Interspecific Relationships
This exercise can be used to study population ecology, food webs and trophic levels. It is meant to give students a better understanding of the interrelatedness of organisms in a community by studyin...

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A Field Trip for Applied biology: Mark-Recapture of White-footed Mice in a Local Woodlot
Mark-recapture techniques were used to determine the size of a white-footed mouse (Peromyscus leucopus) population in a woodlot in Bowling Green, Ohio. Sherman live traps were used to capture t...

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A Handbook for Collecting Releve Data in Minnesota
The exercise describes releve field methods and discusses the multivariate analysis of releve data. The application of releve data to problems of habitat evaluation, forest inventory, and research pro...

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A Laboratory Teaching Model Which Trains Students to Exercise Discretion: Evaluating Water Quality
Rather than give students specific prescriptive laboratory procedures, this method provides the student with a task, two or three procedural steps, and a list of resources available to accomplish the ...

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A lesson in prairie conservation: An example of collaborative science outreach to local community schools through cooperation between local industry and undergraduate students at a local university
Eli Lilly Company provided supplies for undergraduate students to plan and deliver lessons in prairie conservation to local elementary school students. The resulting lesson and laboratory experiment...

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A Methanol-Free Method of Extracting Secondary Chemicals
This experiment examined the inducible responses of tobacco. Leaf toxicity was assessed by a brine shrimp bioassay. A new method of extraction was used in this bioassay. Previously, secondary chemical...

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A Quantitative Study of Litter and Soil Invertebrates Utilizing the Berlese Funnel
This exercise is meant to familiarize students with invertebrates that inhabit litter and soil and to help them appreciate the importance of these organisms in the environment.

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A Semester-Long Research Problem Approach to Senior Undergraduate Laboratories in Ecology
Laboratories in biology are geared to periods of designated length and, so, are dependent on reliable methodologies. Reliable means repeatable; surprises are (at least implicitly) not tolerated. Yet...

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