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://portal.weecology.org/
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 lead to one of my favorite phrases "the world is complicated"
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