TEACHING ISSUES AND EXPERIMENTS IN ECOLOGY

COMMENTARY

• Bringing Research Data to the Ecology Classroom through a QUBES Faculty Mentoring Network •Kaitlin M. Bonner, Arietta E. Fleming-Davies, Kristine L. Grayson, Alison N. Hale, X. Ben Wu, and Samuel Donovan
  

PRACTICE

Datasets

• Painting turtles: an introduction to species distribution modeling in R •Anna L. Carter
  
• The Biology of Climate Change: The effects of a changing climate on migrating and over-wintering species at a high-elevation field station •Carrie Wu and Amy Ellwein
  
• Parasites – They’re what’s for dinner: Investigating the role of parasites in aquatic food webs •Sarah A. Orlofske
  
• Investigating Leaf Litter Decomposition and Invertebrate Communities in Streams •Alida F. Janmaat
  
• Environment-Richness Relationships in Ephemeral and Permanent Wetlands: Guided Inquiry with Graph Interpretation •Amanda M. Little
  
• Investigating Sexually Transmitted Disease (STD) Ecologies Using Geographic Information Systems (GIS) •Maruthi Sridhar Balaji Bhaskar, Jason A. Rosenzweig, and Shishir Shishodia
  
• The Effect of Climate Change on Butterfly Phenology •Debra Linton, Anna Monfils, Molly Phillips, and Elizabeth R. Ellwood
  
• The nose knows: How tri-trophic interactions and natural history shape bird foraging behavior •Kaitlin M. Bonner and Gregory B. Cunningham
  
• Data Management using National Ecological Observatory Network’s (NEON) Small Mammal Data with Accompanying Lesson on Mark Recapture Analysis •Jim McNeil and Megan A. Jones
  

Figure Sets

• Using functional responses to investigate the ecological consequences of an introduced biological control agent •Jeremy L. Hsu
  



EDITORIAL BOARD

Christopher Beck (Emory University), Lead editor, Alan Griffith (University of Mary Washington), Christopher Sacchi (Kutztown University), Kathy Winnett-Murray (Hope College)