Here are some photos from the research site in Portal, Arizona. For more information about the research project at Portal you can look at their website at
http://www.biology.usu.edu/labsites/ernestlab/portal/index.html
Expected Learning Outcomes
By the end of this course a fully engaged student should be able to
- distinguish between direct and indirect, positive and negative effects
- describe the experiemental design that Dr. Brown and his colleagues used to study exploitative competition between desert rats and rodents
- discuss the "search the the missing indirect positive effect of rodents on ants" and how that dilema was solved
-discuss why and how the outcome of studies of interactions betwen organisms can vary over time
- discuss the way that the ecological community responded when they learned the importance of long term studies
- discuss how indirect interactions influence my facvorite phrase "the world is complicated"
For the expected learning outcomes you state that, "describe the experimental design that Dr. Brown and his colleagues used to study exploitative competition between desert rats and rodents" shouldn't it be between rodents and ants?
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