[ECOLOG-L] Different results from Statview and SPSS

2009-06-09 Thread MaryBeth Voltura
I am reviewing an old dataset that I had originally analyzed in Statview (5.0.1), and re-ran some statistics in SPSS (v.16.0), with very different results. I am running ANOVA on food intake, using body mass as a covariate, with 3 experimental diet groups. The two programs produce different sums

Re: [ECOLOG-L] stealing from websites; educational use

2009-05-14 Thread MaryBeth Voltura
This semester, I had students in my physiological ecology course create websites as a class project. They chose an animal and an environmental stressor, and discussed the physiological mechanisms the species has to handle the stressor. They presented information on natural history, and also

[ECOLOG-L] Ideas for spring field ecology labs in northern climate?

2008-03-27 Thread MaryBeth Voltura
I teach General Ecology in the spring semester in central New York. Spring is unpredictable at best. We have very little snow on the ground right now, but I have stomped through 3 feet on April 1st. This provide serious challenges for field experimentation, as our semester ends the first week of