Welcome to the Homepage for BIO/EES 344 - Ecology at Wilkes University Instructor: Kenneth M. Klemow, Ph.D. General course information

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Course announcements (added 10/7/08)	Powerpoint presentations on Community Attributes and Community Theory are now available by clicking the embedded links. Here are links to today's lab: Forest Inventory and Analysis National Program Ecotrends National Center for Ecological Analyses and Synthesis LTER Data Network catalog
Lab links	Stomata density Procedure Data Write-up Estimating population density Procedure Human survivorship Procedure Data Life table Procedure Sampling woody vegetation Procedure Data Assessing plant response to herbivory Procedure Data Analyzing continental scale data Procedure Data
On-line articles of interest (please nominate articles that you think may be of interest.)	Careers in Ecology pamphlet produced by the Ecological Society of America (downloads as .pdf). Basic Ecological Literacy - A First Cut.An article that I wrote in 1991 for the Ecological Society of America's Education Section Newsletter concerning basic ecological literacy. NWI Maps - What They Tell Us.An article written by Ralph Tiner of the US Fish & Wildlife Service for the Environmental Law Institute (which produces the National Wetland Newsletter). Part of the theme of his article responds to criticism that we have leveled against the National Wetland Inventory maps. Protozoan attacks frogs. An article published in the 16 September 1997 issue of the New York Times concerning an explanation as to why frogs seem to be disappearing in many areas. Treasure of Biodiversity Discovered, and It's in Nation's Yard. An article published in the 16 September issue of the New York Times concerning recent analyses that show that North America has a greater wealth of biological diversity than previously recognized. CNN story about deforestation.
Links to ecologically related sites:	Cain / Bowman / Hacker text companion website Ecological Society of America Homepage ESA-NEON workshop description ESA-NEON workshop links LTER homepage NEON - National Ecological Observatory Network TIEE-Web (Teaching Issues and Experiments in Ecology) Ecological Data for Student Use Links to Biological Informatics Information Pennsylvania DEP Aquatic Ecology Page British Ecological Society Society of Wetland Scientists SeaWiFS page Some interesting images from a project to analyze the world's oceans (Sea-viewing Wide Field-of-view Sensor). Check it out if you are an ocean-lover! The Mining Company ecology web site. A potpourri of various topics, from a website that has all kinds of interesting information. NASA Ozone-hole page
Info from previous years	Stomatal density data from '04 Stomatal density data from '06 Cemetery demography from '04 Cemetery demography from '06 Ecovisions assignment from '04

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This page posted and maintained by Kenneth M. Klemow, Ph.D., Biology Department, Wilkes University, Wilkes-Barre, PA 18766. (570) 408-4758, kklemow@wilkes.edu.