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PARTNERS

• Creating partnerships
• Smithsonian Institution
  • Monitoring the forest
    
• EMAN (Ecological Monitoring and Assessment Network)
• Kejimkujik National Park and National Historic Site
  • Forest biodiversity plots
  • Research at Kejimkujik
  • Canadian species at risk
  • White-tailed deer
  • Piping plover
  • Northern ribbon snake
  • Southern flying squirrel
  • Common loon
  • Blanding's turtle
• N. F. Douglas Lumber
  • Silviculture and responsible stewardship
  • Monitoring forest biodiversity

NOVA SCOTIA

• Location
  • Map of Canada
  • Map of Nova Scotia
  • Two Halifax stories
• Landscape
  • The forest
  • The climate
• History
  • First Nation people
  • Mi'kmaq impact on biodiversity
  • European settlers
  • European impact on biodiversity
• Industry
  • Forestry
  • Sustainable forestry development
  • Fishing
  • Diversifying the fishing industry
  • Shipping
  • Tourism

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WHAT'S BIODIVERSITY

• Biodiversity
  • Earth's biodiversity
  • Forms of life on Earth
• Three types of biodiversity
  • Species diversity
  • Genetic diversity
  • Ecosystem diversity
• Threats to biodiversity
  • Overpopulation
  • Habitat change
  • Global climate change
  • Pollution
  • Overharvesting
  • Introduced species
• Why is biodiversity important?
  • Better stewardship
• The future: how can biodiversity be protected?

FOREST BIODIVERSITY

• Aims
• Process
  • Site selection
  • Collecting tree data
  • Tag trees (online activity)
  • Code trees (online activity)
• Kejimkujik site
  • Plot 1
    • Graph 1
    • Graph 2
  • Plot 2
    • Graph 3
    • Graph 4
  • Tree key (online activity)
• Findings

RESOURCES

• Activities
  • Setting up for success
  • Big picture data
  • Sampling along a transect
  • Using quadrats to sample
  • Online plot (online activity)
• World of living things
  • Animal kingdom
  • Plant kingdom
  • Fungal kingdom
• Glossary

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