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: 191217
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
Class OUTSIDE today
Field Research:
trapping techniques
Trap Check Schedule
Trap Check Data sheet
Expedition Field Techniques(PDF)
10/30
Coriolis Effect & Climate
Chapter 8
Coriolis Effect:
Airplanes
Ocean Currents
Wind Currents
Why avoid Pacific?
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
Extra Credit: Photography
11/13
Conditions for Life I
Chapter 3
Why avoid Pacific?
Wangari Maathai: Planting trees in Kenya
(YouTube)
(YouTube)
I will be a hummingbird (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)
11/20
Conditions for Life II
Chapter 3
email Traffic Results
email Tree Results
Data Analysis:
Traffic Results
 
Tree Results
11/27
Life History
Chapter 7
Land Snail (YouTube)
Spores
"Life wil find a way"
email Mackinnon List Results
email Bird Point Count Results
Data Analysis:
Bird Mackinnon List Results
 
Bird Point Count Results
Useful Calculator:
Bird Diversity
Useful Simple Statistics:
Standard Deviation calculators online
Standard Error calculators online
Student's T-Test
Chi-squared Test
12/4
Populations
Chapter 6
Species & Evolution
Chapter 4
Darwin's Finches
Green Anoles
Iterative evolution in a water bird
email 1st draft of slides (PPT)
email 1st draft of script (DOC)
May 1957 (PDF; see Fig. 1))
Population Clock
Babies born each day
Hunger Statistics
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 2:
PPT
Script
Group 3:
PPT
Script
Group 4:
PPT
Script
Group 5:
PPT
Script
Group 6:
PPT
Script
Group 8:
PPT
Script
Group 12:
PPT
Script
Group 13:
PPT
Script
THU2019FvsNDHU2016F
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
Extinction
Chapter 5
Taiwan's Ecosystems
Chapters 9 & 10
Your Ecological Footprints
Consumption, & Climate Change
Last chance to submit draft Species Description. I will not revise any description submitted after today.
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
Species Description Due
Species Description Due
Review:
Quiz questions
Extra Credit: Photography
Email me:
Put "
Taiwan Ecology
" in the subject heading.
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