Butterfly, bird, and plant declines.
This assignment requires students to consider data related to diversity in local animal populations. Students will apply their understanding of samples, populations, and statistics to data from several different published studies of biodiversity. This document serves as a student handout; an answer key is provided in an accompanying document.
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Keywords
- bee
- biodiversity
- bird
- burrow
- butterfly
- conventional
- correlation
- density
- deposition
- distribution
- diversity
- ecology
- environment
- error
- error bars
- extinct
- extinction
- farming
- figure
- flower
- frequency
- fruit
- Gaussian
- global
- graph
- habitat
- interaction
- mean
- median
- native
- organic
- ovary
- p
- plant
- plot
- pollen
- pollination
- population
- production
- productivity
- proxy
- sample
- sample size
- sigma
- species
- standard deviation
- standard error
- unemployment
- variability
- variable
- variation
- wombat
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