Using a Native Landscape to Integrate Undergraduate Research into Variety of Science Classes for Both Majors and Non-Majors-A Framework

 

Tested Studies in Laboratory Teaching, 2015, Volume 36

Susan Holmes, Gail Baker, Stacey Kiser, & Paul Ruscher

Abstract

This laboratory exercise is designed to be undertaken in the marine rocky intertidal. It tests two hypotheses related to diversity, abundance and physical disturbance by collecting data on the types and numbers of organisms found living under two different size boulders in two areas of the rocky intertidal. Students work in groups to collect the data and then share data with others to analyze the data to test the hypotheses.

Keywords:  diversity, marine, disturbance, abundance, intertidal, field exercise

University of Oregon (2014)