In Fall 2020, the ESU Plant Ecology course was a participant in the Ecological Research as Education Network (EREN) Flexible Learning Project, Plants in the Human-Altered Environment. The EREN Flexible Learning Projects were developed to provide students with course-based original research experiences in a variety of course formats, across in-person, hybrid, and online learning. Plant Ecology was taught in a remote format in Fall 2020, and students were able to independently document trees in various areas near where they were living, and compare these tree communities to areas studied by the National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON) using the same field methods. This allowed the class to understand how trees differ between human-dominated areas and the less developed sites of the NEON study. This experience is described here in the NEON blog.
Three students in the Plant Ecology course developed this work further over the Spring 2021 semester and presented their findings as a poster at the Botanical Society of America Annual Meeting (Botany 2021, virtual). Their poster is below and can be viewed as a PDF here. Congratulations to these students on their successful presentation at a national conference!
Three students in the Plant Ecology course developed this work further over the Spring 2021 semester and presented their findings as a poster at the Botanical Society of America Annual Meeting (Botany 2021, virtual). Their poster is below and can be viewed as a PDF here. Congratulations to these students on their successful presentation at a national conference!
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