The Green Room: The Gray Wolf—A Good Case Study

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This column focuses on making your teaching more environmentally friendly. This month’s issue discusses using the gray wolf as a case study for such topics as endangered species, wildlife conservation methods, ecosystem restoration, general population dynamics, and predator-prey interactions.

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Competition Disciplinary Core Ideas Disciplinary Core Ideas in Life Science Ecosystems ENCdl Food web Life Science LS2.A: Interdependent Relationships in Ecosystems LS2.C: Ecosystem Dynamics, Functioning, and Resilience LS2: Ecosystems: Interactions, Energy, and Dynamics Population dynamics Populations Predation Science Focus Three Dimensions of the Framework and/or NGSS

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Type Journal ArticlePub Date 3/1/2014Stock # tst14_081_03_10Volume 081Issue 03

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