Category: Ecology
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“Optimal Foraging” Workshop
Background Your team is part of a hypothetical experimental design group who is investigating the “Threespine Stickleback” fish. Your research team is responsible for designing experiments and interpreting data. Getting Started To begin , watch this short video (“Allopatric Speciation”) that reviews the four mechanisms of allopatric speciation: founder effect, genetic drift, mutation, natural selection:…
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Critical reflection
Critical Reflection At the beginning of the module, you were introduced to a scenario: You are a fisheries ecologist who monitors commercially-important fish species in the the northern Gulf of Alaska. And you are interested in learning about how life history traits and reproductive strategies intersect with overharvesting practices. And now, for your narrative reflection…
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Adapting or Acclimating
Application and Practice (individual) This assignment continues our explorations of relating academic concepts to authentic real-world research. Please follow all instructions and tasks described below. To begin, watch both of these videos, where you’ll see how the elephants in the video are adapting to a human impact, whereas the corals were acclimating to a human…
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Genetic Engineering and Conservation
Read this article : Next, answer these two questions: 1) What was the single most important thing you learned from this reading? 2) How might the information presented within the article be consistent with or conflict with your own ethical views on the subject matter? Support your statements with ecological concepts and principles we’ve been…
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Evolution in Action
This assignment continues our explorations of how to interpret ecological data. And it’s a terrific opportunity for you to relate academic concepts to authentic real-world research. To begin, watch this video entitled “Beak of the Finch from HHMI: After watching the video, complete the document attached. Attached Files (PDF/DOCX): EvoAction-StudentHO1-act.pdf Note: Content extraction from these…
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Preliminary Bibliography
Task: Topic: How urban development affects animal habitats. Find and accurately cite five peer-reviewed academic articles relevant to your research topic. Submit a preliminary bibliography listing these five articles in APA format, along with a brief summary of each article.
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Global Political economy Review Literature: In what ways Doe…
ill do the video write itt down for me Video Proposal: You will then follow up choosing the topic with me by creating a short 4-5 minute video discussing why you selected your topic. This video is due on February 4 at 5pm on iLearn. In the video, you are to answer a number of…
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Ecology Question
It should be in Chicago (footnotes-bibliography) Style of all the sources that you plan to use for your research paper, including at least two peer-reviewed academic sources found on AtlaSerials and a paragraph describing the thesis, reasons, and evidence of each source and how they are relevant to your argument. If you used AI tools,…
