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The First Day of Class - The Most Important	p. 6
Faculty: Organizing the Flow of Class	p. 10
Rising atmospheric CO[subscript 2] and carbon sequestration in forests	p. 13
Climate change: Confronting student ideas	p. 21
The rising tide of ocean diseases: unsolved problems and research priorities	p. 23
Marine Pathology: revealing the ocean's etiology to earthbound students	p. 31
Students: Doing Science	p. 34
Generality in ecology: testing North American grassland rules in South African savannas	p. 37
Practicing scientific inquiry: what are the rules?	p. 47
Divided culture: integrating agriculture and conservation biology	p. 49
Ecological controversy: analysis to synthesis	p. 59
The effects of atrazine and temperature on turtle hatchling size and sex ratios	p. 61
Determining confidence: sex and statistics	p. 66
A call to ecologists: measuring, analyzing, and managing ecosystem services	p. 68
Lyme disease: a case about ecosystem services	p. 77
Students: Reading Science	p. 80
Human-induced long-term changes in the lakes of the Jianghan Plain, Central Yangtze	p. 83
Collaborative learning - a jigsaw	p. 90
Loss of foundation species: consequences for the structure and dynamics of forested ecosystems	p. 93
Problem solving: a foundation for modeling	p. 101
Faculty and Students: Assessing Multiple Ways	p. 104
Novel weapons: invasive success and the evolution of increased competitive ability	p. 107
Novel assessments: detecting success in student learning	p. 115
Effects of deposited wood on biocomplexity of river corridors	p. 117
Learning through peer assessment	p. 123
Can crop transgenes be kept on a leash	p. 125
Unleashing problem solvers: from assessment to designing research	p. 133
Students: Preparing Homework for Class	p. 136
Losing pieces of the puzzle: threats to marine, estuarine, and diadromous species	p. 139
Active Homework - preparation for active classes	p. 147
The ecological-societal underpinnings of Everglades restoration	p. 149
Unraveling complexity: building an understanding of Everglades restoration	p. 158
How many endangered species are there in the United States?	p. 160
Here today, not gone tomorrow?	p. 168
Faculty: Moving from Assessment to Research	p. 170
E-commerce and Caulerpa: unregulated dispersal of invasive species	p. 173
Bridging the pathway from instruction to research	p. 179
Will human-induced changes in seawater chemistry alter the distribution of deep-sea scleractinian corals?	p. 183
Coding to analyze students' critical thinking	p. 189
Environmental cleanup using plants: biotechnological advances and ecological considerations	p. 191
Designing research to investigate student learning	p. 199
Analyzing results: the tip of the iceberg	p. 201
Faculty: A Community of Researchers	p. 204
Reprint Citations	p. 207
References	p. 209
Index	p. 211
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