To investigate how species, communities, and habitats change over the rural-urban (or pristine to human-dominated) gradient students conduct a series of biological inventories, field measurements,...
Low-intensity surface fires once were common in pine-dominated ecosystems in the Lakes States USA. During the 20th century such fires were largely excluded. Today managers are restoring this natural...
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Ecological succession is driven by disturbance, both natural and human-induced, and change occurs at multiple
scales, both temporal and spatial. Understanding the mechanisms involved in succession...
Understanding the complexity of ecosystems at all scales, macro to micro, is challenging for students (and scientists!) to unravel. Sklar and colleagues present the engaging problem of the...
This article contains descriptions of group experiments that were performed in SDSU's restoration ecology course. It also reviews the student evaluations of this course.