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This case study is divided into two parts to explore the development of the drinking water supply for New York City. First, a brief history on the evolution of the water supply system is presented. ...
This exercise links a daily activity in your students’ lives to its biological sources. By connecting your students’ lives to biodiversity in a concrete way, the biodiversity crisis becomes present...
This article provides a list of strategies and tactics for effective science writing.
Predator-prey interactions are among the most familiar and important in ecology, and they are also fraught with common misconceptions for students and the lay public. The notion of potential indirect...
Ecosystem services associated with invertebrates might include soil aeration by earthworms, pollination by bees or habitat provision by coral reefs. However, we do not typically list provision of...
How motivated, empowered, and confident are students when they walk into a science course with 250 (or more) other students? Often students’ expectations are limited to taking notes on lectures,...
Students bring prior knowledge about science to our courses, yet sometimes their information is inaccurate.The Beedlow et al. article [attached] provides a foundation for addressing several...
Students, especially those from the inland parts of a country, tend to have a “terrestrial-centric” view of Earth. For some, exploration of marine ecosystems may occur only during holidays or while...
Ecologists attempt to establish general principles from a vast range of organizational, spatial, and temporal scales (Belovsky et al. 2004). The process of developing generalities in ecology...
The article by John Banks [attached] outlines innovative programs worldwide that integrate the seemingly opposed goals of agriculture and conservation biology to produce mutually beneficial outcomes....
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