Integrated Study of Environmental Effects on Organisms

生物与环境的相互作用表现在许多尺度上的生物反应，从生物化学到生态系统水平。在自然环境变化的背景下，生物与其环境的关系一直受到生态学家的关注，并且鉴于人类影响的环境变化对生物的影响，生物与其环境的关系越来越重要。在这个项目中，库茨敦大学生物系提供的八个实验室课程正在进行调整，以向学生介绍生物体对自然环境变化或人类影响环境的生理反应的研究。这些努力是根据布卢姆斯堡大学、康奈尔大学、特拉华州大学和伊利诺伊大学厄巴纳分校尚潘分校教师的经验改编的。实验室练习侧重于测量环境对生物体的影响，从生理反应到整个生物体的反应。要研究的生物体包括细菌、原生生物、植物和选定的海洋无脊椎动物。环境因素正在实验室或温室的受控环境中以及在野外自然环境变化条件下进行研究。在这个项目中：1）学生们正在合作，以研究生物体和环境之间的关系，在基于调查的实验室练习，2）学生，在小组工作，使用计算机接口的生理设备，以量化响应选定的环境因素，3）学生研究如何选定的环境因素影响生物体在个人的表现，人口数量，或在物种之间的竞争性相互作用的水平，4）学生使用从图形表示到基本推理统计的比较定量方法分析生理和整个有机体数据，5）学生以手稿式实验室报告，海报或专业会议典型的口头报告模式呈现结果。

Biological Sciences (61)The interaction of organisms with their environment is manifested in biological responses at many scales, from the biochemical to the ecosystem level. The relationships of organisms and their environments has been of concern to ecologists in the context of natural environmental variation and is of growing importance in light of the effects on organisms of human-influenced environmental change. In this project eight laboratory classes offered in the Biology department at Kutztown University are being adapted to introduce students to study of the physiological responses of organisms to natural environmental variation or to human-influenced environments. The efforts are an adaptation of and based on the experiences of faculty at Bloomsburg University, Cornell University, the University of Delaware, and the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. Laboratory exercises focus on measurement of effects of environments on organisms from the physiological to the whole organism scale of response. The organisms to be studied include bacteria, protists, plants, and selected marine invertebrates. The environmental factors are being studied in controlled environments in the laboratory or greenhouse as well as under conditions of natural environmental variation in field sites. In this project: 1) Students are working cooperatively to examine the relationship between organisms and environment in inquiry-based laboratory exercises, 2) Students, working in groups, use computer-interfaced physiological equipment to quantify response to selected environmental factors, 3) Students examine how selected environmental factors impact organisms at the level of individual performance, population numbers, or in competitive interactions among species, 4) Students analyze physiological and whole organism data using comparative quantitative methods from graphical representation to basic inferential statistics and 5) students present results in manuscript-style laboratory reports, in posters, or in oral presentations patterned after those typical of a professional meeting.