Ecological

Assignment Task      Background The state of an ecosystem is influenced, among many other factors, by trophic interactions. Plant-feeding insects, called herbivores, can become pests, decimate plant biomass, reduce ecosystem p …

Assignment Task     Concepts in Ecology III  Field Camp Report  Field Camp Report AssessmentThe final assessment task for this practical component of the course will be to write a scientific report that addresses …

Assignment Task     Prepare an essay on any environmental issueIt is an individual assignment. Students are expected tobring out the extent and magnitude of the issue identified and its implicationsat the local, national and global …

Assignment Task   MiniThesis Grading Rubric Total Marks: Criteria Weighting Expectations Letter to the Editor 5 marks You submit a brief letter to the Editor of Trends in Ecology & Evolution, succinctly and politely explaining how …

Assignment Task           Task Fire has been called a ‘global herbivore’ (Bond and Keeley, 2005) that influences the evolution of plants and animals, the structure and composition of above and below-gr …

Assignment Task: Objective The purpose of this assignment is for you to run a manipulative experiment using a realistic predator-prey model. In so doing, you will  1. explore how predators affect prey populations and vice versa 2. e …

Assignment Task      Task To quantify and interpret changes in an nominated assemblage of birds using a real data set spanning a multi-decadal time frame.  Choose a functional group of birds within the provided data …

Assignment Task: I am willing to change my research direction from “cyanobacteria physiology and ecology” to aquatic toxicology. I started my HDR with Prof. xxx who provided me a research proposal that he would like to offer a ph …

Assignment Task   Question 1 Biologists studying the ecology of an island off the coast of Ecuador have noticed that a particular population of birds have lost the ability to fly. This may be due to successive generations living in a loca …

Assignment Task : INTRODUCTION: This assignment is designed to help students put theory into practice.  The ecological approach to social work is widely used in the field.  This approach recognizes that a persons’ life is multid …

Assignment Task -                    Introduction   Introduce study organism and specify the ecological area of interest, giving  appropriate context to the stu …