The Invasive Grass-Fire Cycle in the U.S. Great Basin

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Students will exercise critical thinking skills to form a hypothesis on how cheatgrass alters fire behaviors. Students will analyze data and answer questions based on their interpretation of field-based data and satellite data. Using this information, students will collaborate to create maps and graphs.

This activity is included in Volume 8 of Teaching Issues and Experiments in Ecology (TIEE).

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Primary or BEN resource type	Assignment/activity (non-laboratory)
Secondary resource type	Dataset
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Format	html
Ecological Core Concept	Communities -- Disturbance, assembly, and succession Landscapes and larger scales The science of ecology -- Statistical analysis
Classification	Big Data Collection
Drought & Water-Ecosystem Services Collection	Off
Conservation Targets Under Global Change Collection	Off
Big Data Collection	On
Editor's Choice	Yes
Audience	Undergraduate upper division 15-16 Undergraduate lower division 13-14
Pedagogical Use Description	This activity is intended for students to conduct a scientific investigation in a small group. Students will learn and practice the skills of interpreting data, generating graphs, and presenting the information represented in maps and graphs.
Keywords	invasive species, cheatgrass, Bromus tectorum, fire ecology, disturbance, spatial analysis tools
Life science discipline (subject)	Ecology
Primary Author Controlled Name	Jennifer Balch
Primary Author Affiliation	National Center for Ecological Analysis & Synthesis, University of California, Santa Barbara; The Pennsylvania State University, Department of Geography
Primary Author email	jkbalch@psu.edu
Secondary Author Name(s)	Marnie K. Carroll, Bethany A. Bradley
Secondary Author Affiliation(s)	Diné College, University of Massachusetts-Amherst,
Submitter Email	education@esa.org
Rights	Jennifer Balch
Review Status	Accepted
Resource Editor	Unknown
Reviewer A	Unknown
Review A Submission Status	Review Not Submitted
Reviewer B	Unknown
Review B Submission Status	Review Not Submitted
Date Of Record Submission	2012-06-13

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