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

Taiwan Ecosystems

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

Week	Lecture	updated: 190618
2/21	Ecological Questions I Chapters 1&2 Textbook (PDF)	Syllabus (PDF) Undergraduate 2 credits
2/28	Holiday	THUR 16:10-18:00
3/7	Taiwan's Diversity Film: Typhoon Island (PDF)	C101
3/14	Scientific Method Chapter 2 Project hypotheses How to do Study Site Log (PDF) How to do Tree Survey (PDF)	Study site selection Map of Study Sites THU map Study Site Log (PDF) Beaufort Wind Scale How to find North (PDF) Tree Data Sheet (PDF)
3/21	Common Taichung Birds Bird Watching	Common Taichung Birds Study Site Log (PDF)
3/28	Coriolis Effect & Climate Chapter 8 Coriolis Effect: Airplanes Ocean Currents Wind Currents How to do Traffic Survey (PDF)	Group Project Part I (Turn in Study Site Logs) Traffic Data Sheet (PDF) Identifing Arthropod Orders: BugGuide Key to Adult Insects Introduction to Taiwan's Snakes
4/4	Holiday
4/11	Conditions for Life I Chapter 3 How to do Bird Survey (PDF)	Common Taichung Birds Bird Data Sheet (PDF) Expedition Field Techniques - Bird Surveys (PDF)
4/18	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)
4/25	Conditions for Life II 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)
5/2	Life History Chapter 7 Land Snail (YouTube) Spores	"Life wil find a way"
5/9	Species & Evolution Chapter 4 Darwin's Finches Green Anoles Iterative evolution in a water bird Extinction	Group Projects DUE BEFORE 5/15 email Traffic Results email Tree Results
5/16	Extinction Chapter 5	Group Projects DUE BEFORE5/22 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
5/23	Population Chapter 6 May 1957 (PDF; see Fig. 1))	Population Clock Babies born each day Hunger Statistics
5/30	Taiwan's Ecosystems Chapters 9 & 10	Group Projects DUE 6/6 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
6/6	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 Draft: due 6/12 email slides (ppt) email script (doc)
6/13	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	DUE AT BEGINNING OF CLASS PRINT & submit slides (PPT: 6 slides per page) PRINT & submit script (DOC) TURN in ALL data sheets!
6/20	FINAL EXAM Review: Quiz questions	Extra Credit