Ecological Field Techniques

This App contains ecological field studies techniques that can be conducted in wild nature by non-professional researchers - school and university students together with their teachers, single beginning investigators, families, amateurs of all ages.

It includes 40 environmental study lessons (see below) divided by four seasons (Autumn, Winter, Spring and Summer) and covered a wide variety of activities in nature. These activities (lessons) focus on five main themes (subjects) - landscape, botany, zoology, water ecology and environmental monitoring.

The list of all topics with their annotations you can found at https://ecosystema.ru/eng/eftm/manuals/

These lessons promote a wide variety of outcomes which correspond to established educational standards in many countries. The ecological field study activities address content standards in the areas of earth science, life science, biology, ecology and the nature of science. Intellectual skill development includes questioning, data collection, analysis and drawing conclusions.

This App promotes understanding of ecosystems and the protection of the environment through the training of teachers in specific field study techniques, the education of young people in ecology concepts and issues and the sharing of ecological study results between colleagues.

This App is addressed to the middle and secondary level science teachers and students, and for all those who would like to investigate local wild nature, to share ecological and cultural information and work together to help create a better environment.

IN-APP PURCHASES
The free version of this App includes a list of 40 manuals with their annotations and links to 40 instructional videos that illustrate field techniques described in the manuals. As well free version provides links to Kindle eBooks and Kindle Paperback books that contain all these manuals (https://www.amazon.com/Alexander-Bogolyubov/e/B082RYY9TG/). You can purchase manuals directly in the application in various options: all 40 manuals ($8.99), as well as manuals divided by 6 topics ($3.99) or by 4 seasons of the year ($6,99).

The list of all 40 field study lessons:

I. GEOGRAPHY:
Orienteering in the forest
Eye Survey of the Field Study Site
Mapping Forest Vegetation
Geological Exposure Description
Minerals and Rocks
Profiling a River Valley Slope
Soil Description
Integrated Study on Landscape Profile
Description of Small Rivers and Streams
Study of Snow Cover
Making a Campfire

II. BOTANY:
Species Composition and Number of Fungi
Making a Herbarium
Flora of Your Local Environment
Vertical Structure of a Forest
Green Plants Under Snow
Ecology of Early Flowering Plants
Phenology of Plant Florescence
Assessment of Ecological Features of Meadows
Vital State of Coniferous Underbrush
Growth Dynamics of Trees Based on Annual Rings
Vital State of a Forest Based on Pine-tree Analysis
Environmental State of the Forest Based on Leaves’ Asymmetry

III. ZOOLOGY:
Forest Invertebrates 1: Forest Litter and Wood
Forest Invertebrates 2: Grass, Tree Crowns and Air
Water Invertebrates in a Local River
Species Composition and Abundance of Amphibians
Making Feeders and Nesting Boxes
Species Composition and Census of Birds
Studies of Bird Populations
Day Activity of Singing Birds
Birds’ Nesting Life
Observation of a Chickadee Flock`s
Winter Mammals Route Census by Footprints
Mammal Ecology According to Their Tracks

IV. HYDROBIOLOGY:
Description of Small Rivers
Physical and Chemical Properties of Natural Waters
Water Invertebrates and Assessment of River Environmental State
Study of Plankton
Fauna of Spring Temporary Water Bodies
Species Composition and Abundance of Amphibians

V. BIOINDICATION:
Lichen Indication
Vital State of a Forest
Ecological Features of Meadows
Environmental State of the Forest
Vital State of Coniferous Underbrush
Complex Environmental Assessment of Human Impact on an Area

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