Constructing Ecology

Chris Paradise (Davidson College)

Constructing Ecology is an active, student-oriented courseware for educators who want to teach their students how to think like ecologists, read and interpret the scientific literature, integrate concepts and topics, and develop core scientific competencies. It consists of a series of case studies embedded in topical chapters that presents contextualized and integrated background material, and data, figures, and tables from peer-reviewed primary literature.

Course Under Development

Topics

  • Structure and Function

  • Growth and Regulation

  • Evolutionary Ecology and Adaptations

  • Species Interactions: Structuring Communities

  • Ecological Change

  • Energy and Matter

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meet the author

Dr. Chris Paradise is professor of biology at Davidson College. He has been teaching undergraduate courses ranging from introductory biology to upper level seminars in ecotoxicology and renewable natural resources for more than 25 years. He is a coauthor of the innovative introductory biology text Integrating Concepts in Biology that reenvisions the teaching and learning experience with an active-learning inquiry-based approach that emphasizes critical thinking, quantitative reasoning, and data interpretation.