In this lab we studied home ranges. A home range is the actual physical area covered in the course of daily activities. Some factors that can affect home ranges are the animals need for resources and the availability of resources. Home ranges are calculated by movements of a studied individual plotted on a map over …
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In this lab my group dissected owl pellets to better understand a community’s food web by observing a community’s top predator’s pellet. Food webs are food chains within a community of organisms. Food webs shows what organisms eat other organisms. A food web is also broken down into predators, primary consumers, secondary consumers, and producers. …
In this lab we studied the Hardy-Weinberg principle. The Hardy-Weinberg principle states that allele and genotype frequencies in a population will remain constant from generation to generation in the absence of other evolutionary influences. The Hardy-Weinberg principle is used to measure if the observed genotype frequencies in a population differ from the frequencies predicted by …
In this lab we studied the tree diversity from the forest edge to the forest interior. Understanding tree diversity of an area is important in determining the overall heath of the environment. An area with high diversity is seen to be healthier than an area with low diversity. Through out the years as humans have …
The focus of this lab is to study the variations in leaf area between inner and outer leaves on an oak tree. The study of these leaves is to determine if leaf morphology shows an adaptation. Tree leave shape is a product of the species’ evolutionary histories. The function of tree leaves are to capture …
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The purpose of this human survivorship lab is to observe individuals in a certain group and calculate their death rate, draw a life table, study their population dynamics, and draw a survivorship curve for their group. Doing this helps one understand the life stages and survivability at certain ages of individuals within the group. Population …
In this week’s lab me and my lab group studied the characteristics of populations and how the individuals in the populations are arranged in space. We specifically study the dispersion of Dallisgrass. Dispersion of a population is referred to by the arrangement of the individuals in the population and their spacing from one another. There …
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In this week’s lab me and my lab group studied the characteristics of populations and how the individuals in the populations are arranged in space. We specifically study the dispersion of Dallisgrass. Dispersion of a population is referred to by the arrangement of the individuals in the population and their spacing from one another. There …
In this lab me and my lab group analyze data that was taken from an experiment set up to mimic natural foraging. The purpose of this lab is to identify when it is the optimal time to move from one patch of prey to the next in order to optimize foraging. An optimal forager is …
In Ecology lab 2 Biodiversity – data analysis my lab group took data to determine how biodiverse an area was. Determining the diversity of an ecosystems allows one to better understand the state of that ecosystem. The data that was took during the first lab can be compared to the data obtained from last week’s …
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