TEACHING ISSUES AND EXPERIMENTS IN ECOLOGY

PRACTICE

Data Sets

• Exploring the population dynamics of wintering bald eagles through long-term data •Julie Beckstead, Alexandra N. Lagasse, and Scott R. Robinson
  
• Demographic vital rates and population growth: an introduction to projection matrices and elasticity analysis •Jonathan M. Conard
  
• Nitrogen biogeochemistry of headwater catchments underlain by discontinuous permafrost •Tamara K. Harms, Samuel T. Norlin, and Jeremy B. Jones
  
• Global Temperature Change in the 21^st Century •Daniel R. Taub and Gillian S. Graham
  
• Metabolic ecology: How do body size and temperature affect nutrient cycling rates? •Michael J. Vanni and Jessica A. Gephart
  

Experiments

• Using Stream Leaf Packs to Explore Community Assembly •Jennifer H. Doherty, Cornelia Harris, and Laurel Hartley
  
• Are males cheaper than females? Male and female costs of reproduction •Ivana Stehlik
  
• Foraging behavior of insect pollinators in the presence of ambush predators •Ivana Stehlik and Christina Thomsen
  

EDITORIAL BOARD

Christopher Beck (Emory University), Lead editor, Charlene D'Avanzo (Hampshire College), Alan Griffith (University of Mary Washington), Christopher Piccone (Fitchburg State University), Christopher Sacchi (Kutztown University), Kathy Winnett-Murray (Hope College)