Course
Educational Models in Ecology
Found 32 materials
Teaching model: Mechanisms that ensure adaptive behavior
The model helps establish the relationship between the life history of a given mammal species and the mechanism characteristic of it that ensures adaptive behavior.
Educational Model: Interspecific Competition and Ecological Niche Partitioning
The model shows niche partitioning by two related species that differ in tolerance ranges to an important environmental factor.
Educational Model: Lotka-Volterra Predator-Prey Model
The model shows dynamics of two interacting species: predator and prey.
Educational Model: Logistic Growth
The model demonstrates patterns of logistic population growth.
Educational Model: Exponential Growth
The model demonstrates patterns of exponential population growth.
Educational Model: Plant Water Balance
The model provides an understanding of plant water balance and mechanisms of its regulation.
Educational Model: Distribution of Biomes on Earth
The model shows distribution of biomes (large regional ecosystems) across Earth’s surface, separately for land and ocean.
Educational Model: Photosynthetic Pigments of Plants
The model explains the relationship between plant pigments and the composition of photosynthetically active radiation
Educational Model: Engelmann’s Experiment
The model illustrates the well-known experiment by Theodor Engelmann, conducted in the late 19th century
Educational Model: Effect of Heat Quantity on Development of Poikilothermic Organisms
The model explains the concept of effective temperatures
Educational Model: Allen’s Rule
The model explains the zoogeographic Allen’s rule.
Educational Model: Bergmann’s Rule
The model explains the zoogeographic Bergmann’s rule.
Educational Model: Animal Heat Balance
The model provides an understanding of the heat balance of homeothermic animals and the processes that maintain it.
Educational Model: Dependence of Animal Body Proportions on Body Size
The model makes it possible to understand allometric-growth patterns.
Educational Model: Oxygen Revolution
The model demonstrates some stages of a key change in Earth’s history caused by the activity of living organisms.
Educational Model: Daisyworld
Visualization of J. Lovelock’s conceptual model “Daisyworld,” showing the potential of organisms to influence their habitat.
Educational Model: Consequences of a Local Nuclear Conflict ("Nuclear Winter")
The model illustrates the "nuclear winter" scenario — a proposed sequence of events in the event of nuclear-weapon use
Educational Model: Factors Determining Planetary Temperature
The model makes it possible to assess the effects of three factors on planetary temperature.
Educational Model: Continental Drift
The model shows continental positions at different stages of Earth’s history
Educational Model: Plate Tectonics
The model illustrates processes occurring in Earth’s crust and the upper layer of the mantle
Educational Model: Greenhouse Effect in the Atmosphere
The model illustrates the most common concepts of the greenhouse properties of the atmosphere.
Educational Model: Greenhouse Effect (How a Greenhouse Works)
The model facilitates understanding of the greenhouse-effect mechanism that causes warming not only in a greenhouse, but also in Earth’s atmosphere
Educational Model: Effects of Electromagnetic Radiation on Organisms
The model shows the effects on living organisms of electromagnetic radiation with different wavelengths
Educational Model: The Sulfur Biogeochemical Cycle Under Present-Day Earth Conditions
The model provides an understanding of sulfur movement during the corresponding biogeochemical cycle.
Educational Model: The Nitrogen Biogeochemical Cycle Under Present-Day Earth Conditions
The model makes it possible to examine the interconnections among the main processes constituting the nitrogen biogeochemical cycle.
Educational Model: The Carbon Biogeochemical Cycle Under Present-Day Earth Conditions
The model makes it possible to identify the main stages of the carbon biogeochemical cycle.
Educational Model: Energy Sources for Biogeochemical Cycles Using the Phosphorus Cycle as an Example
Working with the model makes it possible to identify the main stages of the phosphorus cycle, as well as the main energy sources both for …
Educational Model: Hydrological Cycle
The model demonstrates the main stages of the water cycle (hydrological cycle).
Educational Model: Interaction of Factors (Controlling Photosynthesis in a Greenhouse)
The model makes it possible to determine the nature of the joint influence of two factors (using temperature and illumination as an example) on organisms
Educational Model: Ecological Factors
The model demonstrates basic patterns of the influence of one or several ecological factors on organisms.
Educational Model: Levels of Biosystems
The model presents examples of biosystems belonging to different levels of organization
Educational Model: Development of Life on Earth
Key events in the history of Earth's biosphere and some stages of its prehistory