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  Eco-riddle:
What is this brown object? Animal, vegetable, or mineral? Alive or dead? If it's alive, how and where does it live? If it's dead, what might have caused its death?

 

 


[Click on the photograph for clues.]

 
Section I: Introduction to ecophysiology
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*Alternative lesson versions - MediaSite | MS Silverlight browser plug-in
  Interactive lesson   Extras & On Internet
  Introduction to ecophysiology   SI units handout | SI article
SI units summary online (NIST)
 
 
Section II: Solar radiation
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  Solar radiation Solar radiation
Part 1:
Introduction, wavelength, solar radiation, and wavebands
Part 2:
Dosimetry (including all radiation laws)
Part 3:
Instrumentation, glossary, and study

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Wavebands handout

Interactive games
Solar radiation
Photobiology I
Photobiology II

Section III: Energy balance
  Interactive lessons - on DVD Alternate lesson version - MediaSite Extras & On Internet
  Energy balance Energy balance
Part 1:
Introduction, radiation, and conduction
Part 2:
Convection, latent heat, other processes, glossary, study, & examples

 

Interactive games
Energy balance
Section IV: Soil energy balance
  Interactive lesson - on DVD Alternate lesson version - MediaSite Extras & On Internet
  Soil energy balance

 

Soil energy balance  
Section V: Climate
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  Climate
Climate*
(*updated version with practice test (Topic: Study)
Climate

 

Climate data online
Sections VI: Temperature stress
  Interactive lesson - on DVD Alternate lesson version - MediaSite Extras & On Internet
  Temperature stress Temperature stress

 

 
Sections VII: Photosynthesis
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  Photosynthesis
Photosynthesis*
(*Introductory version with practice test (Topic: Study)
 
Photosynthesis
*Note: C4 photosynthesis should be listed as "high" temperature optima rather than "moderate."
Interactive games
Photosynthesis
Sections VIII: Water relations: Drought stress
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  Drought stress
Drought stress*
(ignore the animal examples)
(*Introductory version with practice test (Topic: Study)

 

Drought stress Interactive games
Water relations
Sections IX: Ecotypes
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  Ecotypes

 

Ecotypes Interactive games
Ecology of species
Sections X: Interactions among species
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  Interactions Interactions
Part 1: Introduction & Allelopathy
Part 2: Competition
Note that there is an error on the section of Protection experiments: figure 6. The fertilization and no fertilization treatments are reversed (the interactive lesson has been corrected).
Part 3: Herbivory
Part 4: Other interactions and carbon balance

 

Interactive games
Species interactions
Section XI: Systems ecology: Integration and scaling from plant to globe
  Interactive lesson - on DVD Alternate lesson version - MediaSite Extras & On Internet
  Systems ecology: Integration & scaling Systems ecology Systems Dynamics Modeling