TEACHING ISSUES AND EXPERIMENTS IN ECOLOGY

EDITORIAL

• The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in Ecology • Charlene D'Avanzo

RESEARCH

• Enhancing science teachers’ understanding of ecosystem interactions with qualitative conceptual models • Marion Dresner and Monica Elser
• Assessment of the teaching of evolution by natural selection through a hands-on simulation • Lori H. Spindler and Jennifer H. Doherty
• Evaluating a Multi-Component Assessment Framework for Biodiversity Education • Hagenbuch, Brian E., Nora Bynum, Eleanor Sterling, Anne H. Bower, John A. Cigliano, Barbara J. Abraham, Christine Engels, John F. Mull, John D. Pierce, Michelle L. Zjhra, Jennifer M. Rhode, Stuart R. Ketcham, and Margaret-Ann Mayer
• Practitioner Research Improved My Students’ Understanding of Evolution by Natural Selection in an Introductory Biology Course • Bruce W. Grant

PRACTICE

Experiments

•  Rapid Adaptation of Bean Beetles to a Novel Host • Christopher W. Beck and Lawrence S. Blumer
• Decomposition and Soil CO₂ Emission • Jeffrey A. Simmons
• Marine Reserve Design:  Simulating stakeholder options • Bonnie J. Becker and Peter A. Selkin
• Biodiversity Responses across a Gradient of Human Influence • Christopher A. Lepczyk
• An Assessment of Assemblage Nestedness in Habitat Fragments • Roarke Donnelly

Figure Sets

• What does agriculture have to do with climate change? • Brook J. Wilke and Justin Kunkle
• Of wolves, elk and willows: how predation structures ecosystems • Cynthia Dott
• When Biocontrol Isn’t Effective: Making Predictions and Understanding Consequences • Michele R. Schutzenhofer and Tiffany M. Knight

REVIEWS

• The 2008 AIBS/AAAS Biology Education Summit • Susan Musante