Biology & Ecology: learning basic principles and examining the diversity of Taiwan's organisms and ecosystems.

Biology & Ecology

In this course we learn basic biological and ecological principles and examine the diversity of Taiwan's organisms and ecosystems.

Week	Lecture	updated: 191016
9/11	Introduction	Syllabus (PDF) Undergraduate
9/18	Ecological Questions I Chapters 1&2 Textbook (PDF)	3 credits Wed 14:10-17:00 M232
9/25	Taiwan's Diversity Film: Typhoon Island (PDF)
10/2	Guest 'speaker': snake Intro to Taiwan's Snakes Scientific Method Chapter 2 Project hypotheses	Identifing Arthropod Orders: BugGuide Key to Adult Insects Introduction to Taiwan's Snakes
10/9	Paraphrasing,Citations,References Paraphrasing Citations&References JWM2018 How to use Study Site Log How to do Tree Survey	Study Sites: THU map Map of Study Sites Project Groups Study Site Log Data Sheet (PDF) How to use Study Site Log (PDF) Tree Survey Data Sheet (PDF) How to do Tree Survey (PDF)
10/16	Common Taichung Birds Bird Watching How to do Bird Surveys (PDF) How to do Traffic Surveys (PDF)	Birds: Common Taichung Birds How to do Bird Surveys (PDF) Bird Data Sheet (PDF) Expedition Field Techniques(PDF) Traffic: How to do Traffic Surveys (PDF) Traffic Data Sheet (PDF)
10/23	Field Research: trapping techniques	Expedition Field Techniques(PDF)
10/30	Coriolis Effect & Climate Chapter 8 Coriolis Effect: Airplanes Ocean Currents Wind Currents	Turn in Group Project Part I Turn in data sheets: Study Site Logs October Traffic Survey October Bird Point Count Tree Survey (if completed)
11/6	MIDTERM EXAM	Quiz questions Coriolis questions
11/13	Conditions for Life I Chapter 3	Wangari Maathai: Planting trees in Kenya (YouTube) (YouTube) Jadav 'Molai' Payeng: Planting trees in India (YouTube) Mbah Sadiman: Planting trees in Indonesia (YouTube) Allegory: Planing trees in the Alps (YouTube) David Bamberger: Restoring the water cycle in Texas (YouTube) I will be a hummingbird (YouTube)
11/20	Life History Chapter 7 Land Snail (YouTube) Spores "Life wil find a way" Film: Cane Toads Populations Chapter 6 May 1957 (PDF; see Fig. 1)) Population Clock Babies born each day Hunger Statistics	email Traffic Results email Tree Results Data Analysis: Bird Mackinnon List Bird Point Count Useful Calculator: Bird Diversity Useful Simple Statistics: Standard Deviation Standard Error Student's T-Test Chi-squared Test
11/27	Species & Evolution Chapter 4 Darwin's Finches Green Anoles Iterative evolution in a water bird Extinction Chapter 5	email Bird Mackinnon List email Bird Point Count
12/4	Taiwan's Ecosystems Chapters 9 & 10	email 1st draft of slides (PPT) email 1st draft of script (DOC)
12/10	email final draft of slides (PPT) email final draft of script (DOC)	email final draft of slides (PPT) email final draft of script (DOC)
12/11	Group Projects Group 1: PPT Script Group 2: PPT Script Group 3: PPT Script Group 4: PPT Script Group 5: PPT Script Group 6: PPT Script Group 7: PPT Script Group 8: PPT Script Group 9: PPT Script Group 10: PPT Script Group 11: PPT Script Group 12: PPT Script Group 13: PPT Script Big Picture	DUE AT BEGINNING OF CLASS PRINT & submit slides (PPT: 6 slides per page) (PPT: no color) PRINT & submit script (DOC) TURN in ALL data sheets!
12/18	Your Ecological Footprints Taiwan, Consumption, & Climate Change	A Year of Earth's CO2 Global temperatures 1880-2014 Arctic snow melt 1979-2012 Coconut Carrying Octopus Interview & Video
12/25	Holiday: No Class
1/1	Holiday: No Class
1/8	FINAL EXAM	Review: Quiz questions Extra Credit