Ecology of Animal Behavior: In the News

GoShoals | 9:55 am | July 20, 2010 | Announcements

After the bird walk, the students spread out along the island’s shoreline to measure the length of rockweed, a brown algae growing on the rocks. The students were tackling the question of whether they thought the rockweed would be longer low on the rocks, where it spends more time completely submerged as the tide rises, or higher up in their habitat range. In small teams, the students measured five plants for length and bushiness in each area. Later, the class would collate the data and determine whether the findings supported their theories for which area is more conducive to longer growth.

Read more or check out the Ecology of Animal Behavior course page.

Photo & article by Krishna Ramanujan.