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Ecology Learning Framework

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Species-Habitat Interactions
How do species interact with their habitat?	Assessing Urban Biodiversity With the eBird Citizen Science Project: A Course-Based Undergraduate Research Experience (CURE) Module Authentic Ecological Inquiries Using BearCam Archives Chilling in the Cold: Using Thermal Acclimation to Demonstrate Phenotypic Plasticity in Animals Coevolution or not? Crossbills, squirrels and pinecones How Many Squirrels Are in the Shrubs? A Lesson Plan for Comparing Methods for Population Estimation Life Is Just a Game: An Active Learning Activity to Teach Life History Evolution Sorry to Eat and Run: A Lesson Plan for Testing Trade-off in Squirrel Behavior Using Giving Up Densities (GUDs) Squirreling Around for Science: Observing Sciurid Rodents to Investigate Animal Behavior Squirrels in Space: Using Radio Telemetry to Explore the Space Use and Movement of Sciurid Rodents Teaching Biodiversity with Museum Specimens in an Inquiry-Based Lab Pages 1 2 next › last »	show Compare and contrast a species with a broad range and one with a narrow range. Give an example of an environmental gradient, and explain the changes that one would expect to see from one end of the gradient to the other. Explain how somebody would depict a gradient graphically. Give an example of an indicator species, and explain the practical benefits of knowing that information. Provide two explanations for that fact that most species have clumped distributions.