CREDITS and DISCLAIMERS

Credits for this Experiment:    This lab is part of a larger NSF project incorporating inquiry-based labs in the ecology labs in the Southern Illinois University at Carbondale life science courses. This lab arouse out of brain storming among the investigators (D. J. Gibson, .B.A. Middleton, G.W. Saunders, M. Mathis, W.T. Weaver, J. Neely, J. Rivera, and L.M. Ovler) who wanted to develop an ecological experiment for use in a field setting. Details of the NSF project can be found in Gibson et al. (1999). We thank J. Neely and J. Rivera for writing the student handouts used in this experiment. We thank K. Jacobson and W. Mulach for including this laboratory in the Biology 200b curriculum at Southern Illinois university at Carbondale. We thank B. Grant , D. Herzog, S. Musante, and an anonymous individual for reviewing this submission.

      Special thanks go to P.H. Williams for breeding fast plants at the University of Wisconsin for over thirty years and for developing scientific experiments using fast plants for use in natural science curriculums in elementary schools, middle schools, high schools, and colleges. Some of his college level experiments investigate evolution by artificial selection, inbreeding depression, and intraspecific competition.

Credits for this Volume of TIEE:    Please see the Editor's Notes to TIEE Volume 1.

Credits for TIEE:    see TIEE Overview.

Generic Disclaimer:

      Adult supervision is recommended when performing this lab activity. We also recommend that common sense and proper safety precautions be followed by all participants. No responsibility is implied or taken by the contributing author, the editors of this Volume, nor anyone associated with maintinaing the TIEE web site, nor by their academic employers, nor by the Ecological Society of America for anyone who sustains injuries as a result of using the materials or ideas, or performing the procedures put forth at the TIEE web site or in any printed materials that derive therefrom.

      The Ecological Society of America (ESA) holds the copyright for TIEE Volume 1, and the authors retain the copyright for the content of individual contributions (although some figure and data sets may bear further copyright notice). No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the copyright owner. Use solely at one's own institution with no intent for profit is excluded from the preceding copyright restriction, unless otherwise noted. Proper credit to this publication must be included in your lecture or laboratory outline/ course handout for each use.

      To reiterate, you are welcome to download some or all of the material posted at this site for your use in your course(s), which does not include commercial uses for profit. Also, please be aware of the legal restrictions on copyright use for published materials posted at this site. We have obtained permission to use all copyrighted materials, data, figures, tables, images, etc. posted at this site solely for the uses described in the TIEE site.

      Lastly, we request that you return your students' and your comments on this activity to the TIEE Managing Editor at TIEEsubmissions@esa.org for posting at this site.