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- BIO 106 – Ecology from an Urban Perspective<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Alan Reid<\/strong><\/p>\n
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- UBC Botanical Gardents<\/li>\n
- Bloedel Conservatory<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
\nChristine Dalton\u00a0 – BIO 106<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n
![\"Bi106Stream](\"http:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2015\/11\/Bi106Stream-Christine-Dalton-3-225x300.jpg\")
<\/a>Biology 106 students get out in the field many times during the semester. We conduct surveys of plants on campus, investigate the ecology of the Great Blue Heron Nature Reserve, and in the sunny, warm days of fall get our feet wet at a Streamkeepers workshop at Stoney Creek in Abbotsford\u2019s Bateman park.<\/p>\n![\"Bi106Stream](\"http:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2015\/11\/Bi106Stream-Christine-Dalton-2-300x225.jpg\")
<\/a>The Streamkeepers Program provides training for students in the skills required to protect and restore local aquatic habitats. Nichole Marples from the Langley Environmental Partners Society has been conducting Steamkeepers trainings with UFV students for over 10 years. The day begins in the classroom with an introduction to the program and the modules we will be tackling (Advanced Stream Habitat Survey, Water Quality Survey, and Stream Invertebrate Survey). We then head to Stoney Creek where we set fish traps which allow us to identify the species in the stream later in the day. It is a full day of intensive work and learning at the stream.<\/p>\n![\"Bi106Stream](\"http:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2015\/11\/Bi106Stream-Christine-Dalton-1-1024x456.jpg\")
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\n![\"UBC](\"http:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2015\/11\/UBC-Alan-Reid-2-225x300.jpg\")
<\/a>![\"UBC](\"http:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2015\/11\/UBC-Alan-Reid-3-225x300.jpg\")
<\/a>Alan Reid – UBC Botanical Gardens<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\nThe canopy walkway is at UBC Botanical gardens and consists of about 500m of track which is suspended in the canopy of the forest. \u00a0This is a Vancouver designed and built walkway from Greenheart canopy walkways. \u00a0The students performed an ecological survey of the walkway from the canopy. \u00a0This was to get students to try to think about space and time and perform a survey looking down from the trees rather than up at them.<\/p>\n
\nAlan Reid – Bloedel Conservatory<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n
![\"Bloedel](\"http:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2015\/11\/Bloedel-Alan-Reid-2-300x225.jpg\")
<\/a>The Bloedel Conservatory is home to more than 500 species of plants from around the world and boasts impressive collections of fig trees, palms, exotic fruit and spice trees, cacti and tropical flowers\/ornamentals.\u00a0The Bloedel Conservatory is also home to a resident population of more than 100 free-flying birds. It is the only contained tropical ecosystem in the greater Vancouver area. \u00a0Students here looked at several ecological systems\u00a0including\u00a0plant adaptations,\u00a0edible\u00a0growth forms, and the effect of temperature and water on leaf forms.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
![\"Bloedel](\"http:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2015\/11\/Bloedel-Alan-Reid-1024x768.jpg\")
<\/a><\/p>\nPhotos credits to Alan Reid and Christine Dalton.<\/em><\/p>\n
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<\/a>Biology 106 students get out in the field many times during the semester. We conduct surveys of plants on campus, investigate the ecology of the Great Blue Heron Nature Reserve, and in the sunny, warm days of fall get our feet wet at a Streamkeepers workshop at Stoney Creek in Abbotsford\u2019s Bateman park.<\/p>\n