TEACHING ISSUES AND EXPERIMENTS IN ECOLOGY

SPECIAL FEATURE

Commentary

• Engaging undergraduate students in ecological investigations using large, public datasets •Teresa Mourad, Bruce Grant, and Wendy Gram
  

Experiments and Data Sets

• Investigating human impacts on stream ecology: locally and nationally •Amelia Nuding and Stephanie Hampton
  
• Drivers of avian local species richness: continental-scale gradients, regional landscape, or local land cover? •Tom A. Langen
  
• The Invasive Grass-Fire Cycle in the U.S. Great Basin •Jennifer K. Balch, Marnie K. Carroll, and Bethany A. Bradley
  
• Investigating the Ecology of West Nile Virus in the United States •Barbara J. Abraham and Josephine Rodriguez
  

PRACTICE

Experiments

• Demography from physical cemeteries, “virtual cemeteries,” and census data •Janet Lanza
  

EDITORIAL BOARD

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