3.Realize and appreciate the role of scientific research in understanding the natural world. 4.Integrate research data and results into an understanding of ecology and environmental science as a whole. 5.Describe and articulate the process of succession. 6.Design further experiments to test concepts of succession. 7.Recognize the long-term nature of successional mechanisms.
Students break into pairs to develop and test an hypothesis on diversity in the study plots.
Transport to site, quadrat frames, chi-square tables, stake wire flags, tape measures. This project was supported, in part, by the National Science Foundation. Opinions expressed are those of the authors and not necessarily those of the Foundation.