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BIO 315 Entire Course (UOP)   FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.bio315mart.com   BIO 315 Week 1 DQ 1
BIO 315 Week 1 DQ 2 BIO 315 Week 1 Assignment
Beren Robinson Field Study Paper BIO 315 Week 2
DQ 1 BIO 315 Week 2 DQ 2 BIO 315 Week 2 DQ 3
BIO 315 Week 2 Learning Team Exercises BIO 315
Week 2 Environment, Resources, and Competition
BIO 315 Week 3 DQ 1
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BIO 315 Week 1 Assignment Beren Robinson Field
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www.bio315mart.com   Resources Field Study by
Beren Robinson in Ch. 5 of Elements of
EcologyWrite a 700- to 1,050-word paper
explaining the important aspects of the study and
how they relate to ecology and evolution.Describe
original observations of researchers.Describe
the study in detailResearch questions of study
Hypotheses Variables in studyDiscuss research
findings.Include a brief, general overview of
how ecologists use evidence and observation to
quantify results before
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BIO 315 Week 1 DQ 1 (UOP)   FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.bio315mart.com   What is your personal
definition of ecology? How do the definitions of
ecology presented by Essentials of Ecology and
the one proposed by Ernst Haeckel vary? Which of
these previous definitions of ecology do you
agree with and why?
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BIO 315 Week 1 DQ 2 (UOP)   FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.bio315mart.com   What is your personal
definition of ecology? How do the definitions of
ecology presented by Essentials of Ecology and
the one proposed by Ernst
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BIO 315 Week 2 DQ 1 (UOP)   FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.bio315mart.com   What is intraspecific
competition? What are some examples of how the
limited quantity of resources affect
intraspecific completion? How does intraspecific
competition affect species distribution and their
evolution?
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BIO 315 Week 2 DQ 2 (UOP)   FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.bio315mart.com   Define the terms
fundamental niche and realized niche. How does
competition relate to George Evelyn Hutchinsons
concept of niches? How can niche differentiation
or complementary experiments explain aspects
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BIO 315 Week 2 DQ 3 (UOP)   FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.bio315mart.com   Describe the three
main types of predator defined in ecology. How
does an understanding of fitness, abundance, and
foraging behavior help us understand predation?
How does environmental patchiness or
fragmentation affect predatorprey populations?
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BIO 315 Week 2 Environment, Resources, and
Competition (UOP)   FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT
www.bio315mart.com   Resources University of
Phoenix Materials Temperature and Precipitation,
Intraspecific Competition, and Interspecific
Competition located on your student
websiteImagine you are an ecologist studying
ecosystems. In this assignment, you are given a
set of data to study.Review the Temperature and
Precipitation data, Intraspecific Competition
data, and Interspecific Competition data located
on your student website.Analyze the data
provided in three graphs.Environment, Resources,
and Competition Presentation
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BIO 315 Week 2 Learning Team Exercises
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  Complete the followingAfter reading Ch. 1 of
Essentials of Ecology, create an outline of the
main interactions that happen between organisms,
populations, and communities in an assigned
ecosystem. Develop an outline and suggest
additional interactions that might be
important.Examine the importance and
applicability of this weeks concepts to each
team member and to society in general.
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BIO 315 Week 3 DQ 1 (UOP)   FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.bio315mart.com   What are some ways
ecologists define populations? What are some of
the factors that regulate populations? What
challenges do ecologists encounter when studying
populations?
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BIO 315 Week 3 DQ 2 (UOP)   FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.bio315mart.com   What is demographic
stochasticity? Why are small populations more
susceptible to extinction from
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BIO 315 Week 3 DQ 3 (UOP)   FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.bio315mart.com   What is primary and
secondary production? What are the limiting
factors on primary production in terrestrial and
aquatic ecosystems? Why is it important for an
ecologist to be able to understand the energy
pathways
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  BIO 315 Week 3 DQ 4 (UOP)   FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.bio315mart.com   What is a
biogeochemical cycle? Describe how the
hydrological cycle transports water through
ecosystems. What are some examples of both benign
and disruptive
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BIO 315 Week 3 Individual Assignment Yeast
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www.bio315mart.com   Resources University of
Phoenix Materials Lab Report Outline, Yeast Lab
Worksheet, and Yeast Lab Spreadsheet located on
your student websiteReview the Yeast Lab
Worksheet. It contains images of four yeast
samples that were observed at 0, 24, 48, 72, and
96 hours.Count the number of yeast cultures
observed at each interval.
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BIO 315 Week 3 Learning Team Exercises
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  Ecosystem StabilityComplete the
followingIdentify producers and consumers in
your native biome and answer the following
questionsHow would removing a producer affect
that biome?
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BIO 315 Week 4 DQ 1 (UOP)   FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.bio315mart.com   Define the following
terms biome, mosaic, and patch. What role does
scale play in the study of ecology? Why
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BIO 315 Week 4 DQ 2 (UOP)   FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.bio315mart.com   How does climate
influence a biome? What are some of the factors
that determine an areas biome? Why do ecologists
study the transitional zones between biomes?
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BIO 315 Week 4 DQ 3 (UOP)   FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.bio315mart.com   What is the
difference between species richness and
diversity? What are some of the challenges in
determining the species richness of a community?
How can these challenges be overcome?
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  BIO 315 Week 4 DQ 4 (UOP)   FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.bio315mart.com   How do alien species
affect ecosystems? How might
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BIO 315 Week 4 Learning Team Assignment Ecosystem
WebQuest and Presentation (UOP)   FOR MORE
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Ecosystem WebQuest located on your student
websiteSelect an ecosystem to examine. Obtain
faculty approval for your ecosystem.Navigate the
Ecosystem WebQuest and answer the questions
located within it.Prepare a 9- to 10- slide
Microsoft PowerPoint presentation describing
your teams selected ecosystem and
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BIO 315 Week 5 Assignment Estuary Project Paper
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  Resource The San Francisco Estuary Project
websiteRead the Introduction to the San
Francisco Estuary Project Comprehensive
Conservation and Management Plan found on the San
Francisco Estuary Projects (SFEP) website at
http//sfep.abag.ca.govSelect the Publications
link on the left-hand side of the site.
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BIO 315 Week 5 Learning Team Exercises
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  Case Study Review and DiscussionComplete the
followingRead the field study in Ch. 20 of
Elements of Ecology and discuss the questions at
the end.
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