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BIO 315 Course Tutorial

• BIO 315 Entire Course

• BIO 315 Week 1 Assignment Beren Robinson Field

• BIO 315 Week 1 DQ 1
• BIO 315 Week 1 DQ 2
• BIO 315 Week 1 Assignment Beren Robinson Field
  Study Paper
• BIO 315 Week 2 DQ 1
• BIO 315 Week 2 DQ 2
• BIO 315 Week 2 DQ 3
• BIO 315 Week 2 Learning Team Exercises
• BIO 315 Week 2 Environment, Resources, and
  Competition

• Resources Field Study by Beren Robinson in Ch. 5
  of Elements of EcologyWrite a 700- to 1,050-word
  paper explaining the important aspects of the
  study and how they relate to ecology and
  evolution.Describe original observations of
  researchers.Describe the study in
  detailResearch questions of study Hypotheses
  Variables in study

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• BIO 315 Week 1 DQ 1

• BIO 315 Week 1 DQ 2

• What is your personal definition of ecology? How
  do the definitions of ecology presented by
  Essentials of Ecology and the one proposed by
  Ernst Haeckel vary? Which of these previous
  definitions of ecology do you agree with and why?

• What is the difference between evolution and
  natural selection? What factors make the
  Galapagos Islands such a fertile ground for
  observing evolution and natural selection? What
  are some other sites that you might propose to
  observe evolution and natural selection in action?

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• BIO 315 Week 2 DQ 1

• BIO 315 Week 2 DQ 2

• What is intraspecific competition? What are some
  examples of how the limited quantity of resources
  affect intraspecific completion? How does
  intraspecific competition affect species
  distribution and their evolution

• differentiation or complementary experiments
  explain aspects of evolutionary theory?

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• BIO 315 Week 2 DQ 3

• BIO 315 Week 2 Environment

• Describe the three main types of predator defined
  in ecology. How does an understanding of fitness,
  abundance, and foraging behavior help us
  understand predation? How does environmental
  patchiness or fragmentation affect predatorprey
  populations?

• Complete the followingAfter reading Ch. 1 of
  Essentials of Ecology, create an outline of the
  main interactions that happen between organisms,
  populations, and communities in an assigned
  ecosystem. Develop an outline and suggest
  additional interactions that might be important.

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• BIO 315 Week 3 DQ 1

• BIO 315 Week 3 DQ 2

• What are some ways ecologists define populations?
  What are some of the factors that regulate
  populations? What challenges do ecologists
  encounter when studying populations?

• What is demographic stochasticity? Why are small
  populations more susceptible to extinction from
  demographic stochasticity than larger
  populations? Why is demographic stochasticity
  important to biologists?

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• BIO 315 Week 3 DQ 3

• BIO 315 Week 3 DQ 4

• What is primary and secondary production? What
  are the limiting factors on primary production in
  terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems? Why is it
  important for an ecologist to be able to
  understand the energy pathways through trophic
  levels

• What is a biogeochemical cycle? Describe how the
  hydrological cycle transports water through
  ecosystems. What are some examples of both benign
  and disruptive human contributions to
  biogeochemical cycles?

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• BIO 315 Week 3 Individual Assignment Yeast
  Culture Lab

• BIO 315 Week 3 Learning Team Exercises

• Resources University of Phoenix Materials Lab
  Report Outline, Yeast Lab Worksheet, and Yeast
  Lab Spreadsheet located on your student
  websiteReview the Yeast Lab Worksheet. It
  contains images of four yeast samples that were
  observed at 0, 24, 48, 72, and 96 hours.

• Ecosystem StabilityComplete the
  followingIdentify producers and consumers in
  your native biome and answer the following
  questionsHow would removing a producer affect
  that biome?What if a consumer is removed?How
  are the results different?In what situation
  would an ecosystem be unaffected by the removal
  of producer or consumer?

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• BIO 315 Week 4 DQ 1

• BIO 315 Week 4 DQ 2

• Define the following terms biome, mosaic, and
  patch. What role does scale play in the study of
  ecology? Why are aquatic ecosystems classified
  differently than terrestrial biomes?

• How does climate influence a biome? What are some
  of the factors that determine an areas biome?
  Why do ecologists study the transitional zones
  between biomes

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• BIO 315 Week 4 DQ 3

• BIO 315 Week 4 DQ 4

• What is the difference between species richness
  and diversity? What are some of the challenges in
  determining the species richness of a community?
  How can these challenges be overcome?

• How do alien species affect ecosystems? How might
  alien plants and animals influence evolutionary
  differentiation? Why is understanding diversity
  and species richness so challenging for
  ecologists?

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• BIO 315 Week 4 Learning Team Assignment Ecosystem

• BIO 315 Week 5 Assignment Estuary Project Paper

• Resource Ecosystem WebQuest located on your
  student websiteSelect an ecosystem to examine.
  Obtain faculty approval for your
  ecosystem.Navigate the Ecosystem WebQuest and
  answer the questions located within it.

• Resource The San Francisco Estuary Project
  websiteRead the Introduction to the San
  Francisco Estuary Project Comprehensive
  Conservation and Management Plan found on the San
  Francisco Estuary Projects (SFEP) website at
  http//sfep.abag.ca.govSelect the Publications
  link on the left-hand side of the site.

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• BIO 315 Week 5 Learning Team Exercises

• Case Study Review and DiscussionComplete the
  followingRead the field study in Ch. 20 of
  Elements of Ecology and discuss the questions at
  the end.Discuss any concept that a team member
  is having a difficult time understanding.

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