TEACHING ISSUES AND EXPERIMENTS IN ECOLOGY

PRACTICE

CASE STUDIES

• Ethics in ecological forecasting: four case-based teaching modules •Abigail S. L. Lewis, Dexter W. Howard, Gerbrand Koren, Cazimir Kowalski, Jason McLachlan, Jody A. Peters, Georgia Smies, and Olivia Tabares
  

DATA SETS

• Playing with open biodiversity datasets: case studies using data from NEON, EDI, and GoMRI* •Xuan Chen and Daijiang Li
  
• Succession Case Study: Impact of Geographic Position on Biodiversity in Mid-Atlantic Forest Communities* •Natasha N. Woods and Julie C. Zinnert
  
• Building Biodiversity Datasets for Invasive Species* •Sara Hansen, Anna Monfils, and Debra Linton
  
• Investigating the Biospheric Carbon Pool in North Central North America •Kellen Calinger
  
• Investigating mammal activity patterns using camera trap observations •Emily K. Prince, Robert T. Kelley, and Elizabeth A. McDonald
  
• Exploring species diversity across space and time with data from the National Ecological Observatory Network •Lauren Holian, Cleber Ten Caten, and Tad A. Dallas
  
• Investigating effects of climate change on the phenology of subalpine wildflowers using a 45-year dataset •David W. McNutt, Nora Underwood, and Brian D. Inouye
  

FIGURE SETS

• Patterns and processes in landscape ecology: land use interactions with stream fish communities across scales* •Lauren Stoczynski
  
• Community interactions of army ants* •Emily Rauschert
  
• Figure Set update: An inquiry-based module aligned with the 4DEE framework for teaching about functional responses and biological control* •Rosny Jean, Linda Auker, Suann Yang, and Jeremy Hsu
  
• An inquiry-based approach for teaching Type III functional responses in ecology* •Jeremy L. Hsu
  
• A graphing activity to investigate functional responses of lionfish* •Suann Yang
  
• Applying a Lotka-Volterra predator-prey model in R to assess the effectiveness of a biocontrol for diamondback moths in Kenya* •Linda A. Auker
  
• Using RGB high-resolution color imagery for object-based image classification and assessing urban canopy cover* •Rosny Jean
  

EXPERIMENTS

• DA³-BES: Exploring Complex Adaptive Systems Using Dynamic Multi-Agent Models for Honey Bee Colony Environment Simulation •Benjamin Wingerter, Rubi Quiñones, and Dominic Cristiano
  

*Supported by ESA's Transforming Ecology Education to 4D (TEE) Project with funding from the National Science Foundation (DBI-2120678)

EDITORIAL BOARD

Christopher Beck (Emory University), Lead editor