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Week |
Lecture |
updated:
20250214
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2/14 |
Ecological Questions I
Chapters 1&2
Textbook (PDF)
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FRI 10:05-11:55
Room 106
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2/21 |
Taiwan's Diversity
Film:
Typhoon Island (PDF)
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3/7 |
Common Changhua Birds
Bird Watching
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Common Taichung & Changhua Lowland Birds
Identifing Arthropod Orders:
BugGuide
Key to Adult Insects
Introduction to Taiwan's Snakes
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3/14 |
Scientific Method
Chapter 2
Project hypotheses
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Study Site Log (PDF)
Study Sites:
THU map
Study Site Log (PDF)
How to use Study Site Log (PDF)
Beaufort Wind Scale
How to find North (PDF)
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3/21 |
Holiday
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3/28 |
Coriolis Effect & Climate
Chapter 8
Coriolis Effect:
Airplanes
Ocean Currents
Wind Currents
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Group Project Part I
(Turn in Study Site Logs)
Start First Traffic Survey Monday
How to do Traffic Surveys (PDF)
Traffic Data Sheet (PDF)
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4/11 |
Conditions for Life I
Chapter 3
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Start First Bird Survey
Common Taichung Birds
How to do Bird Surveys (PDF)
Bird Data Sheet (PDF)
Expedition Field Techniques
- Bird Surveys (PDF)
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4/18 |
Conditions for Life II
Chapter 3
How to do the Tree Survey (PDF)
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How to do the Tree Survey (PDF)
Tree Data Sheet (PDF)
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)
David Bamberger: Restoring water cycle in Texas (YouTube)
Allegory: Planing trees in the Alps
(YouTube)
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4/25 |
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Group Project Part II
Turn in Data Sheets:
Study Site Logs (paper)
Bird Survey I
Traffic Survey I
Tree Survey (if completed or have questions)
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5/2 |
Life History
Film:
Cane Toads
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Start Second Traffic Survey Monday
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5/9 |
Life History
Chapter 7
Land Snail (YouTube)
Spores
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Start Second Bird Survey
Group Projects DUE 5/20
email Traffic Results
email Tree Results
"Life wil find a way"
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5/16 |
Species & Evolution
Chapter 4
Darwin's Finches
Green Anoles
Iterative evolution in a water bird
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Group Project Results DUE 5/27
email Bird Results
email Mackinnon List 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
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5/23 |
Extinction
Chapter 5
Populations
Chapter 6
May 1957 (PDF; see Fig. 1))
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Population Clock
Babies born each day
Hunger Statistics
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6/6 |
Taiwan's Ecosystems
Chapters 9 & 10
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Group Projects DUE 6/4
email Traffic Results
email Tree Results
email Bird Mackinnon List
email Bird Point Count
email draft of slides (PPT)
email draft of script (DOC)
Map of Study Sites
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6/13 |
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
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Group Project FINAL version due 6/18
email slides (ppt)
email script (doc)
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6/20 |
Group Projects
Group 1:
PPT
Script
Group 2:
PPT
Script
Group 3:
PPT
Script
Group 4:
PPT
Script
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DUE AT BEGINNING OF CLASS
PRINTED Slides (PPT)
(PPT: 6 slides per page)
PRINTED Script (DOC)
ALL original data sheets!
Extra Credit Due Today
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