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View Resource When Biocontrol Isn’t Effective: Making Predictions and Understanding Consequences

Invasive species are a major threat to global biodiversity, second only to habitat destruction. One solution to the invasive plant species problem is biological control. Sometimes biological control...

View Resource What's Killing the Coral Reefs and Seagrasses?

In this Issue, students examine published data that address the causes of coral and seagrass decline in Florida. Activities engage students in data analysis and hypothesis testing and will increase...

View Resource What does agriculture have to do with climate change?

This Issue describes how agriculture provides important ecosystem services in the forms of food and fiber, but can also convey many disservices to agroecosystems themselves and to the ecosystems...

View Resource What are the Impacts of Introduced Species?

In this Issue, students will examine published data that address the ecological consequences of introduced species. Activities engage students in data analysis and hypothesis testing, and will...

View Resource What Are the Ecological Impacts of Plant Biotechnology?

Biotechnology is viewed by many scientists and the public as a solution to a potential food supply crisis in the coming decades; however, debates about the use, ethics, and the effectiveness of...

View Resource Vulnerability of High Diversity Habitats to Introduced Species

This Issue focuses on a research article by Stohlgren et al. (2003) and two responses to it that were published in Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment. The article discusses the ecology of...

View Resource Using Student Generated Qualitative Ecological Models

As simplifications of real system, models can be used by students to improve their understanding of an ecosystem and to make predictions about what will happen after a disturbance or other change to...

View Resource Using Stream Leaf Packs to Explore Community Assembly

In this TIEE experiment, students will explore functional and taxonomic diversity in a stream ecosystem, learn about food web relationships, and learn about the ways in which abiotic and biotic...

View Resource Use of an Inquiry-based Approach to Teaching Experimental Design Concepts in a General Ecology Course

The author of this TIEE Research Paper assessed student understanding of experimental design at the beginning and again at the end of a general ecology course in order to understand the impact of...

View Resource The TIEE Research Practitioners Project: Faculty Investigating Active Teaching and Student Learning

This article published in Volume 5 of TIEE describes the TIEE Research Practitioners Project. For the project, fifteen ecology, environmental science, and biology faculty conducted research on the...

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