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    Diseasebots
    This module explores the effects of host density on contact rates and transmission of pathogens or mutualist symbionts using a hands-on simulation, a computer agent-based model in NetLogo, and an...

    Keywords: NetLogoDisease ecologydensity dependenceSpreadsheethost-parasitemutualismOpen-inquiry group projectsmanipulative models (‘beanbag biology’)plotting

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    A Direct Experience Study of Density-Dependent Growth
    An experiential approach to density-dependent growth using a checkerboard, 6-sided die, and two types of markers.

    Keywords: logistic growthdensity dependenceexperiential

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    Teaching Population Dynamics with Data and HHMI BioInteractive
    Presented at NABT 2019, we demonstrate how the Population Dynamics Click & Learn resource can be customized for any organism - using the Lionfish invasion as an example

    Keywords: population growthHHMI BioInteractive

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    World Population Density
    World population density 1950-2050

    Keywords: dataResources @ BioQUEST - Numbers Count

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    An active-learning lesson that targets student understanding of population growth in ecology
    Effective teaching and learning of population ecology requires integration of quantitative literacy skills. To facilitate student learning in population ecology and provide students with the...

    Keywords: population growthexponential growthlogistic growthpopulation ecologygrowth rateDensityAbundancecarrying capacitylinear growth

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    Avida-ED presentation: Context Dependent Fitness
    Avida-ED presentation

    Keywords: fitnessadaptationcontext-dependenceavida-edenvironmentin-class activity

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    Diseasebots HEXBUG Lab
    This module explores the effects of host density on contact rates and transmission of pathogens using a hands-on experiment with HEXBUG robots.
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    5-076-LanchesterLaws-ModelingScenario
    Lanchester's laws are used to calculate the relative strengths of military forces. The Lanchester equations are differential equations describing the time dependence of two armies' strengths A and...

    Keywords: Lanchester's lawssensitivity analysisanalysis

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    1-036-NeutralBuoyancy-ModelingScenario
    An object may hang suspended at, say, ten foot depth in a column of water if at ten feet underwater the density of the object equals the density of water. We study this phenomenon

    Keywords: DensitybuoyancyArchimedes’ Principlefloatneutral buoyance

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    1999-Long-Weiss-The Velocity Dependence of Aerodynamic Drag A Primer for Mathematicians
    This paper is exactly what it says it is, namely, a Primer for Mathematicians. There are ample models, data, attention to such issues as Reynolds’ numbers, and attention to aerodynamics issues.

    Keywords: drag forceaerodynamics

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    Type I Functional Response
    This module introduces the type I functional response in the context of understanding the relationship between an individual's rate of consumption and food density. It is intended for an...

    Keywords: ecologylinear equationsfood density

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    Type II Functional Response: Holling’s Disk Equation
    This module introduces the Holling’s disk equation in the context of understanding the relationship between an individual's rate of consumption and food density. It is intended for an introductory...

    Keywords: ecologyHolling's Disk Equation

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    5-012-LipoproteinModeling-ModelingScenario
    Data from a study on the amounts of low-density-lipoprotein (LDL), form of cholesterol, in blood plasma is presented. Students build, validate, and use a compartment model of the kinetic...

    Keywords: wildlifelow-density-lipoproteintracercompartment modelcholesterolblood plasmabody tissue

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    Ferns are Everywhere
    Using spatial fern population data in hypothesis testing

    Keywords: hypothesis testingNumbers Countspatial distribution

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    1986-Cook-Witten-One-dimensional linear and logistic harvesting models
    Some of the results in the literature on simple one-dimensional, density dependent, discrete and continuous models-with and without harvesting-are reviewed.

    Keywords: logisticcontinuouspopulationlineardiscreteharvestinbg

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    Using Linear Regression to Explore Environmental Factors Affecting Vector-borne Diseases
    In this activity students will use linear regression to analyze real data on vector-borne diseases and explore how environmental factors such as climate change or population density influence the...

    Keywords: ecologygraphingmicrobiologyqbccUnderstanding ratesCreate graphsInterpret graphsinterpret tablesConcepts in Statistics

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    Optimal Foraging in Swirl
    This lesson centers around the marginal value theorem (MVT, Charnov 1976), which describes how animals should forage in patches. It serves as a pre-lab to teach MVT basics, vectors, ANOVA, and...
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    Spatial Justice, Marginal Populations, and Data Integrity
    Spatial justice refers to the consequential geography of a place where spaces are socially produced. Understanding how spatial injustice is created at different spatial scales is an essential part...

    Keywords: data sciencespatial justicedata integrity

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    2011-Nancy_Rodrıguez-Applied Partial Differential Equations in Crime Modeling and Biological Aggregation
    In the first part we study a fully-parabolic system of PDEs for residential burglary ‘hotspots’ (spatio-temporal areas of high density of crime). In this work we are concerned with the existence...

    Keywords: biologyDiffusionKeller-Segel modelchemotaxiscrime

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    Transpiration
    In this lab, students will examine differences between varieties of tomato plants in their transpiration rates.

    Keywords: plant physiologybotanylaboratoryResource Typetranspirationtomatofood security

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