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Pbs Teachers: Alien Invasion: Estimating a Snake Population [Pdf]

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Learn about the effects of alien species on native environments and explore biologists' use of capture/recapture statistics and analysis of sampling techniques by estimating the population size of a tagged species.

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Concepts
data analysis, ecosystems, snakes
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alien species, brown tree snakes, capture, disruption of ecosystems, ecological impacts, environmental studies, island habitats, population sampling, recapture ratios, transplanted animals, pbs, pbs teachers: alien invasion: estimating a snake population [pdf]
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Classroom Considerations
  • Knovation Readability Score: 4 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)
  • This resource is only available on an unencrypted HTTP website.It should be fine for general use, but don’t use it to share any personally identifiable information
NGSS
HS-LS2-1