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Soil Review

On Wednesday we reviewed some of the qualities of soil.  To do this, we looked at a soil profile, and we also made our own edible version. A soil profile is a view of the different layers of soil from the side, so it’s easy to separate each one.  These layers are also called horizons, and [...]

Food Chains-the musical lecture.

James, thought this might at least give you a laugh, if not some inspiration:

Succession…How Communties Change

While we did not get to this Friday, we will on Monday.  Thought you may want to view before then if you had time: Succession View more presentations from Derrick Willard. *NOTE:  I added two new links with stepped diagrams showing good examples and explanations of how primary (after glacier retreats) and secondary (bog to [...]

Species Interactions

Population Ecology-it’s all about relationships.  These relationships make J-curves and S-curves do some strange things.  If you missed class, here is the presentation on species interactions.  The first few slides will look familiar as we used them when we discussed niches last week.  Below the slides is the (gross? cool?) video on the newts and [...]

Keystone & Foundation Species

Trying something new.  I don’t like to use much Power Point, but have seen slideshare used as a way to share presentations.  Here is today’s presentation: Keystone and Foundation Species View more documents from Derrick Willard. What do you think of Slideshare? No more needing to mail a Power Point to a professor if you [...]