Conservation Biology Lab - BIOL 4244L /5244L -Revised Thursday, November 19, 2009 10:08 AM
Meets on Thursday 1-4:45 pm
Email addresses and phone numbers of lab members

  Lab Topic Activity
Aug 27 Suther Prairie visit Introduction and plant species identification Field trip (dress for wading, heat, and sun)
Sept 3 Suther Prairie visit Plant species identification and coverage measurements Field trip (dress for wading, heat, and sun)
 10 Reedy Creek Herbarium Plant species identification (11/07/09) Field data sheet     Summary data sheet
17 Suther Prairie visit Transect B - Wear rain gear If pouring rain or thunderstorm, we will enter data
24 Suther Prairie visit Transect D & E - Wear rain gear If pouring rain or thunderstorm, we will enter data
Oct 1 Suther Prairie visit Transect E & F - Wear rain gear If pouring rain or thunderstorm, we will enter data
 8 Reedy Creek Herbarium Begin data entry and analysis By noon on 10/8 upload statement of purpose to Turnitin
15 Ecology Lab 272 Plant communities and data entry Lehman talk and data analysis
 22 Ecology Lab 272 We will emigrate from there Purpose
29 Ornithology Lab 269 We will emigrate from there

Methods

Nov 5 Ornithology Lab 269 Crunching numbers Finish data corrections and start data analysis
12 Ornithology Lab 269 Finish crunching numbers Data analysis & prepare PowerPoint
19 Ornithology Lab 269 Create PowerPoint presentation Write paper & practice PowerPoint
26 Thanksgiving Practice presentation and eat turkey Transect data (11/07/09)
Dec 3 Presentation Reedy Creek Nature Museum  
17 Take home Finish Suther paper Copies for each member of lab

                Barden, L. S. 1997.  Historic prairies in the Piedmont of North and South Carolina, USA.  Natural Areas Journal  17: 149-152

                     Davis, JE, C. McCrae, BL Estep, LS Barden, JF Matthews.  2002.  Vascular Flora of Piedmont Prairies: Evidence from Several Prairie Remnants. Castanea 67(1): 1-12.

                     Foster, BL, K. Kindscher, GR Houseman, CA Murphy. .2009.  Effects of hay management and native species sowing on grassland community structure, biomass, and restoration.  Ecological Applicatons 19(7): 1884-1896

                     Suther Prairie species list (2005)             Suther Prairie species list (2009)             Suther aerial photos