SEE-UBlack Rock Forest

General Methadology for Instructors and TAs

Exercise 7: Predation Pressure and Avian Behavioral Ecology
Module 7: Consumers: Herbivory, Predation, and Parasitism

Exercise 8: Recycler Communities and Internal Forest Fragmentation
Module 8: Decomposers: The End and The Beginning

  1. Instructor gives the biological background during the lecture on recyclers of the community of animals, bacteria, and fungi that assist in the degradation of carcasses in the field.
  2. Students will be given the handouts discussing the sampling methodology and will be encouraged when they print them off (they are also available online) to begin thinking of questions that they would be interested in testing.
  3. Independent Variables that they could use in their experimental design.
  4. Dependent Variables that they could use in their experimental design.
  5. After lecture, before the start of field time, the students will be asked to confer with their labmates and will be required to draw up a plan outlining the experimental design of their group.