TEACHING ALL VOLUMES SUBMIT WORK SEARCH TIEE
VOLUME 2: Table of Contents TEACHING ISSUES AND EXPERIMENTS IN ECOLOGY
ISSUES: FIGURE SETS

Figure Set 2: Deer and Birds: Which Species Do Deer Favor?

Purpose: To explore relationships between white-tailed deer and the abundance and diversity of breeding birds.
Teaching Approach: "pairs share"
Cognitive Skills: (see Bloom's Taxonomy) — comprehension, interpretation, application
Student Assessment: concept map

FIGURE SET

Figure 2

Figure 2. Abundance of three representative bird species at four deer exclosure sites (hatched bars) and four control sites (solid bars). Deer exclosure sites were fenced in early 1991. (Figure modified from McShea, W. J. and J. H. Rappole. 2000. Managing the abundance and diversity of breeding bird populations through manipulation of deer populations. Conservation Biology 14(4):1161-1170.)

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