Educators have long agreed that the ̳nature of science‘ (NOS) is an important aspect ofany science curriculum. However, exactly how to incorporate NOS into science curriculumremains contentious. We developed a new science course for non-science majors that used anexplicit-reflective approach, where NOS is purposefully combined with the process of scientificinquiry (SI) and o...

Human land use legacies have significant and long lasting impacts across landscapes. However, investigating the impacts of ancient land use legacies (>400 years) remains problematic due to the difficulty in detecting ancient land uses, especially those beneath dense canopies. The city of Caracol, one of the most important Maya archaeological sites in Belize, was abandoned after the collapse of ...

decomposition (Smith et al., 1998), less is known about the interactions of substrate characteristics and microThe soluble fraction of ryegrass [Lolium perenne L. ssp. multibial decomposers during residue decomposition (Schiflorum (Lam.) Husnot.] straw comprises a major component of residue C and its presence or absence should influence the succession of mel, 1995). decomposer communities. Chan...

Waterfowl, including ducks, geese, rails and others, are host to a great diversity of ectosymbiotic arthropods. In this study, we collected ectosymbionts from waterfowl and analyzed taxon richness and total abundance to determine whether there were differences in the mite and louse assemblages of waterfowl of different species, genera, sexes, and feeding behaviors. Data were collected from 53 i...

The assessment of intercoder agreement in the unitizing phase of content analyses has long been overlooked. In particular, little attention has been paid to the issue of co-termination. Although multiple-coder kappa can be used for the purpose of summarizing the agreement of cotermination, its conservativeness often results in gross underestimates. A new family of coefficients based on Multi-re...

Forests are important ecosystems that provide many ecosystem services. To humans, they an resource for food, firewood and timber (Jang et al., 2019). represent rich natural pharmacies containing species with known or potential medicinal nutritional value (Karjalainen 2009). In addition, harbour enormous number of different organisms, from microbes to large mammals (Barlow 2018). This is particu...