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

Taiwan Ecology

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

Week	Lecture	updated: 200310
3/6	Taiwan's Diversity Film: Typhoon Island (PDF) Textbook (PDF)	Syllabus (PDF) Undergraduate 2 credits FRI 14:10-16:00 M220
3/13	Ecological Questions I Chapters 1&2
3/20	Common Taichung Birds Bird Watching	Common Taichung Birds Identifing Arthropod Orders: BugGuide Key to Adult Insects Introduction to Taiwan's Snakes
3/27	Scientific Method Chapter 2 Project hypotheses	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)
4/3	Holiday
4/10	Coriolis Effect & Climate Chapter 8 Coriolis Effect: Airplanes Ocean Currents Wind Currents	Group Project Part I (Turn in Study Site Logs) Start First Traffic Survey Monday How to do Traffic Surveys (PDF) Traffic Data Sheet (PDF)
4/17	Conditions for Life I Chapter 3	Start First Bird Survey Common Taichung Birds How to do Bird Surveys (PDF) Bird Data Sheet (PDF) Expedition Field Techniques - Bird Surveys (PDF)
4/24	Conditions for Life II Chapter 3 How to do the Tree Survey (PDF)	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)
5/1	MIDTERM EXAM Review: Quiz questions Coriolis questions	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)
5/8	Life History Film: Cane Toads	Start Second Traffic Survey Monday
5/15	Life History Chapter 7 Land Snail (YouTube) Spores	Start Second Bird Survey Group Projects DUE 5/20 email Traffic Results email Tree Results "Life wil find a way"
5/22	Species & Evolution Chapter 4 Darwin's Finches Green Anoles Iterative evolution in a water bird	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
5/29	Extinction Chapter 5 Populations Chapter 6 May 1957 (PDF; see Fig. 1))	Population Clock Babies born each day Hunger Statistics
6/5	Taiwan's Ecosystems Chapters 9 & 10	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
6/12	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	Group Project FINAL version due 6/18 email slides (ppt) email script (doc)
6/19	Group Projects Group 1: PPT Script Group 2: PPT Script Group 3: PPT Script Group 4: PPT Script	DUE AT BEGINNING OF CLASS PRINTED Slides (PPT) (PPT: 6 slides per page) PRINTED Script (DOC) ALL original data sheets!
6/26	Holiday
7/3	FINAL EXAM Review: Quiz questions	Extra Credit Due Today