Includes internet references (pages 157-159) and index.
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Introduction -- Safety precautions -- Size or age distributions in populations -- Species diversity -- Monitoring vegetative cover -- Leaf area affects primary productivity -- Diversity in soil ecosystems -- Food webs -- Biome learning centers -- Surace area affects body temperature -- Predator and prey populations -- What are the stages of ecological succession? -- Observing plant growth in different biomes? -- Energy in ecosystems -- Role of decomposers in the nitrogen cycle -- Invasive species' impact on and ecosystem -- Components of an ecosystem -- Community succession in milk -- Day-length adaptations in seeds -- How effective is mimicry? -- Indentifying the benthos community -- Water affects temperatures in biomes -- Scope and sequence chart -- Grade level -- Setting -- Our findings -- Glossary -- Internet resources -- Periodic table of elements.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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This volume provides twenty hands-on experiments that demonstrate ecological concepts and methodology to students.