Lecture 1: Welcome to Ecology
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Why am I here?
- Facilitate your learning of ecology
- Think like an ecologist - what are the important questions, what approaches are used, how are data analyzed, what do the data mean
- Improve scientific literacy
Why are you here?
Assessment
- Exams - Four, including the final exam (350points). Lowest score of first 3 exams will be dropped.
- Case Studies - Four (100 points). A brief write-up of ecological data.
- One-minute papers (1 bonus point each!)
Accompanying Text
- 3rd edition
- find cheap copies online
- not a list of facts, but uses real data as examples
- skim before class, read chapters later
Why Study Ecology?
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by the Contributing Authors.
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factpetersen. (2008, February 20). Lecture 1: Welcome to Ecology. Retrieved September 06, 2008, from Free Online Course Materials — USU OpenCourseWare Web site: http://ocw.usu.edu/biology/general-ecology/lecture1/lecture-1-welcome-to-ecology.
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