Category: Ecology

PRESENTATION GUIDELINES
PRESENTATION: Students will work in pairs to review a co

PRESENTATION GUIDELINES
PRESENTATION: Students will work in pairs to review a course topic from the list below.
For your chosen topic, review key terms and concepts using an example based on a fictional
universe’s ecology (e.g., the magical beasts of Harry Potter, Animal Crossing, Pokémon). Be
creative! The goal is for you to demonstrate that you explain and apply ecological concepts from
this lab to a new topic.
Submit the name of your topic idea by __TBD____
Students will work individually to create a PowerPoint to review a course topic that will be
presented to the class on April 8th. The presentation must be 8-12 minutes long and must
contain at least 10 slides. There will be a 2 to 5-minute question session at the end of your
presentation during which the class and the TA will ask questions. You are be required to present
live during the scheduled class time with your webcam on.
ALL students must submit the presentation to Canvas by 11:59 PM on Sunday April 7th. If
your file is too large to upload, go to: File > Compress Pictures. If you do not turn in the
presentation by the deadline, you will not be permitted to present, and you will receive a ZERO.
You will be graded on this assignment as follows:
• Slides (25%): How effectively the slides present the content
• Oral delivery (10%): How well the student communicates ideas (i.e., well-practiced, clear and
audible volume)?
• Content (55%): Are all the appropriate topics covered? How knowledgeable is the student
about the content? Did the example appropriately convey the concepts? How creative was the
example?
• Questions/Comments (10%): Your participation during the questions/comments session.
Specific details for each section are available in the Presentation Rubric.
Topic Guides for Presentation
Statistics 1
• Review experimental design (control & replicates)
• Review independent vs. dependent variables, categorical vs. numerical variables
• Review population, sample, statistic, and parameter
• Review statistical hypotheses
Statistics 2
• Review t-test
• Review ANOVA & post-hoc tests
• Review linear regression (including how to find equation of line, and R2 value)
• Review how P-values work (not just that it’s less than alpha=0.05)
Sampling Techniques
• What is representative sampling and why is it important?
• What are biases and how do you avoid them?
• Accuracy vs precision and associated errors (systematic vs reproducibility errors)
• Review the 4 different sampling techniques
• Find 2 new sampling techniques from scientific papers that you find interesting
Diversity
• Review communities (Clements vs Gleason)
• Review species richness and the different indices for diversity
• Review the problems with using species richness to measure diversity
• Review species-area curves and sampling effort
Life History
• What is life history? What affects it?
• What are life tables? Discuss different kinds and reasons for using each
• Discuss life history parameters with particular focus on Ro, G and r (how do you interpret
Ro and r?)
Competition 1
• Review intraspecific and interspecific competition
• Review character displacement and niche differentiation in terms of intraspecific and
interspecific competition
• Review density-dependent competition
Competition 2
• Review the different types of niches
• Review competitive exclusion principle
• Review character displacement and niche differentiation
Predation 1
• Review predator-prey dynamics
• Review consumptive effects of predation
• Tie in examples that touch on the key factors that affect predation frequency
Predation 2
• Review trade-offs and optimal foraging theory
• Review non-consumptive effects of predation
• Tie in examples that touch on the key factors that affect foraging trade-offs
Ecosystem 1
• Definition
• Discuss energy flow
• 3 macronutrients (cycles, importance)
• Liebig’s Law and Redfield Ratio
• Provide a brief example from a published paper on importance of nutrient cycling
Ecosystem 2
• Disturbance
• Ecosystem resilience & stability
• Intermediate Disturbance hypothesis
• Regime Shift

Read Corlett 2016.pdf
Find the discussion questions here: Discussion #6 Question

Read Corlett 2016.pdf
Find the discussion questions here: Discussion #6 Questions_ Corlett 2016.docx
Add your answers to the word document and upload using the TurnItIn link below. Note that TurnItIn compares responses to ensure students are turning in original work.
Late assignments will incur a penalty of 10% per day and up to 50% if submitted 5 or more days late.

Section from syllabus: “ EXPANDED ABSTRACTS (60 points):You are to select papers

Section from syllabus: “ EXPANDED ABSTRACTS (60 points):You are to select papers dealing with various topics in wildlife management from refereed professional/scientific journals and write an expanded abstract for each of them.
The abstract should have an introduction, method and materials, study area, results, discussion, conclusion, and your critique of the paper. The maximum length for an expanded abstract is three typed pages of 12pt font.
The format for the abstracts should follow that of the Journal of Wildlife Management.Abstract 2: MULTIPLE SPECIES WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT

Write a three page paper about the results I found in my experiment, do a little bit of research on the topic and I want you to propose three hypotheses that could be used for future experiments.

I need you to write a three page paper about the results I found in my experiment, do a little bit of research on the topic and I want you to propose three hypotheses that could be used for future experiments.
I have attached a document of my results and findings, and an instructions document that you can use.
Each section should have a title
– Discussion of results:
– Arthropods and insects in desert habitats:
– Hypothesis:

I am in Group #6 for pollution. I decided to do ocean pollution revolving around

I am in Group #6 for pollution. I decided to do ocean pollution revolving around microplastics. I have attached articles 1-10 on the attached files along with the rubric, guidelines, and the outline previously created. We need to use all 10 sources in the paper.

Add your answers to the word document and upload using the TurnItIn link below.

Add your answers to the word document and upload using the TurnItIn link below. Note that TurnItIn compares responses to ensure students are turning in original work.
Late assignments will incur a penalty of 10% per day and up to 50% if submitted 5 or more days late.

Read Connell_1978_Diversity_in_Tropical_Rain_Forests_and_Coral_Reefs.pdf
Find th

Read Connell_1978_Diversity_in_Tropical_Rain_Forests_and_Coral_Reefs.pdf
Find the discussion questions here: Discussion #4 Questions
Add your answers to the Word document (Discussion #4 Questions) and upload them using the TurnItIn link below. Note that Turnitin compares responses to ensure students are turning in original work.
Late assignments will incur a penalty of 10% per day and up to 50% if submitted 5 or more days late. DO NOT PLAGIARIZE OR USE AI GENERATED TEXTS

What are the five spheres that create Earth’s environments? How does each affect

What are the five spheres that create Earth’s environments? How does each affect the environments of Earth?
What characteristics do humans share with other mammals? With other primates?
What is a typical habitat for a (non-human) primate? What are some variations in primate habitat?
What are some ways in which primate niches vary?
What are some important primate social behaviors? Which are found in humans and which are not? What social behaviors are found in humans but not in other primates.
What environmental changes did apes have to contend with during the Pliocene epoch?
What were some of the variations within the Plio-Pleistocene hominins and how might they reflect differences in habitat and/or niche?
What one trait did they all share (we have it too!)?
How were they similar and different from modern humans (all of us)?
What are some possible advantages of bipedal locomotion in a savanna habitat?
To what niche were the first stone tools best suited?
Hunting with tools has been suggested as the key to evolution of the basic human pattern (“Man the Hunter”). What are some of the problems with this idea? Why is “Person the Sharer” a better explanation of early human evolution?
In what ways did control of fire (beginning as early as 1 million years ago) influence human ecology?
Among present-day hunter-gatherers, which provides most of the food: hunting or gathering?
Describe the ecological niche of hunter-gatherers of recent times. What are its implications for humans in the following areas: settlement pattern, population density, technology, personal property, social hierarchy, surplus production?
What kinds of habitats are hunter-gatherers capable of inhabiting? Can hunter-gatherers exist in areas where farmers cannot? Is the reverse also true?
What does the example of Kakadu in northern Australia suggest about hunter-gatherers using burning to manage their environments and its significance in the present day?
What is the overkill hypothesis? What evidence supports it and what evidence undermines it? What evidence supports/undermines climate change as an alternative to overkill?

i want a powerpoint with 6 to 7 slids about inorganic nutrients in the seawater

i want a powerpoint with 6 to 7 slids about inorganic nutrients in the seawater without any design or templets in the slides just the informations in organized way + i need at least 2 refrances

presentation, including graph about
1- Light Distribution and Importance in Sea

presentation, including graph about
1- Light Distribution and Importance in Seawater
2- Light and Photosynthesis in marine