tag:open.umn.edu,2005:/opentextbooks/subjects/biology?page=6Open Textbook Library - Biology Textbooks2020-02-22T22:39:12Zhttps://open.umn.edu/assets/common/favicon/favicon-1594c2156c95ca22b1a0d803d547e5892bb0e351f682be842d64927ecda092e7.icohttps://open.umn.edu/assets/library/otl_logo-f9161d5c999f5852b38260727d49b4e7d7142fc707ec9596a5256a778f957ffc.png8092020-02-22T22:39:12Z2024-03-25T23:01:16ZFoundations of Epidemiology<img alt="Read more about Foundations of Epidemiology" title="Foundations of Epidemiology cover image" class="cover " width="350" height="453" data-controller="common--cover" data-placeholder="/assets/common/placeholder-0e0607cbc50663ddb9e8fd188058bcd2630c730ef6ee322801278607b7d5af8e.png" src="/rails/active_storage/blobs/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsiZGF0YSI6MTExMCwicHVyIjoiYmxvYl9pZCJ9fQ==--94c8cb9c163ab596bbfd7b0ef380e0e1358c0d45/foundofEpid.jpg" />This book is intended to provide a basic introduction to epidemiologic methods and epidemiologic thinking. After reading this book, you should be able to read an epidemiologic study, understand what the authors did and why, and identify what they found. You will also have the tools to assess the quality of that study—how good is the evidence? What are potential sources of bias, and how might those have affected the results? This book will not teach you enough to be able to design and conduct your own epidemiologic studies—that level of understanding requires several years of specialized training. However, being able to read and understand the scientific literature about human health will allow you to apply that understanding to your own work in a nuanced, sophisticated way.7982019-12-27T17:34:32Z2024-01-22T18:59:37ZA Student's Guide to Tropical Marine Biology<img alt="Read more about A Student's Guide to Tropical Marine Biology" title="A Student's Guide to Tropical Marine Biology cover image" class="cover " width="350" height="262" data-controller="common--cover" data-placeholder="/assets/common/placeholder-0e0607cbc50663ddb9e8fd188058bcd2630c730ef6ee322801278607b7d5af8e.png" src="/rails/active_storage/blobs/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsiZGF0YSI6NzU3LCJwdXIiOiJibG9iX2lkIn19--2fb99edf5f8eca72566b77ec382e51b75c600373/0000TroMarBio.jpg" />A Student’s Guide to Tropical Marine Biology is written entirely by students enrolled in the Keene State College Tropical Marine Biology course taught by Dr. Karen Cangialosi.Our goal was to investigate three main aspects of tropical marine biology: understanding the system, identifying problems, and evaluating solutions. Each of the sections contains chapters that utilize openly licensed material and images, and are rich with hyperlinks to other sources. Some of the most pressing tropical marine ecosystem issues are broken up into five sections: Coral Reefs and Diversity, Common Fishes to the Coral Reef, Environmental Threats, Reef Conservation, and Major Marine Phyla. These sections are not mutually exclusive; repetition in some content between chapters is intentional as we expect that users may not read the whole book.7882019-10-19T04:05:11Z2024-01-29T14:17:35ZHuman Anatomy Lab Manual<img alt="Read more about Human Anatomy Lab Manual" title="Human Anatomy Lab Manual cover image" class="cover " width="350" height="525" data-controller="common--cover" data-placeholder="/assets/common/placeholder-0e0607cbc50663ddb9e8fd188058bcd2630c730ef6ee322801278607b7d5af8e.png" src="/rails/active_storage/blobs/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsiZGF0YSI6NzQ1LCJwdXIiOiJibG9iX2lkIn19--5f3ec26845123ec0793a9deaaaf8d1e5602ed7c9/978-0-9898878-2-3.jpg" />This is a lab manual for a college-level human anatomy course. Mastery of anatomy requires a fair amount of memorization and recall skills. The activities in this manual encourage students to engage with new vocabulary in many ways, including grouping key terms, matching terms to structures, recalling definitions, and written exercises. Most of the activities in this manual utilize anatomical models, and several dissections of animal tissues and histological examinations are also included. Each unit includes both pre- and post-lab questions and six lab exercises designed for a classroom where students move from station to station. The vocabulary terms used in each unit are listed at the end of the manual and serve as a checklist for practicals.7732019-09-14T15:24:13Z2024-01-22T14:52:18ZConservation Biology in Sub-Saharan Africa<img alt="Read more about Conservation Biology in Sub-Saharan Africa" title="Conservation Biology in Sub-Saharan Africa cover image" class="cover " width="500" height="749" data-controller="common--cover" data-placeholder="/assets/common/placeholder-0e0607cbc50663ddb9e8fd188058bcd2630c730ef6ee322801278607b7d5af8e.png" src="/rails/active_storage/blobs/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsiZGF0YSI6NzMwLCJwdXIiOiJibG9iX2lkIn19--33137a4ddcf528402abd4621097e10a848cf7f40/978-1-78374-752-8.jpg" />Conservation Biology in Sub-Saharan Africa comprehensively explores the challenges and potential solutions to key conservation issues in Sub-Saharan Africa. Easy to read, this lucid and accessible textbook includes fifteen chapters that cover a full range of conservation topics, including threats to biodiversity, environmental laws, and protected areas management, as well as related topics such as sustainability, poverty, and human-wildlife conflict. This rich resource also includes a background discussion of what conservation biology is, a wide range of theoretical approaches to the subject, and concrete examples of conservation practice in specific African contexts. Strategies are outlined to protect biodiversity whilst promoting economic development in the region.7722019-09-08T16:42:59Z2024-01-22T14:52:05ZA Laboratory Guide to Clinical Hematology<img alt="Read more about A Laboratory Guide to Clinical Hematology" title="A Laboratory Guide to Clinical Hematology cover image" class="cover " width="350" height="454" data-controller="common--cover" data-placeholder="/assets/common/placeholder-0e0607cbc50663ddb9e8fd188058bcd2630c730ef6ee322801278607b7d5af8e.png" src="/rails/active_storage/blobs/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsiZGF0YSI6NzI5LCJwdXIiOiJibG9iX2lkIn19--68f1d5c143a8c38a22d7f827771e61afceaf0c62/978-1-55195-440-0.jpeg" />This is eBook will be constantly updated, edited, and reviewed as new emerging information arises.7512019-07-27T16:11:29Z2023-08-31T14:10:13ZQuantitative Ecology: A New Unified Approach<img alt="Read more about Quantitative Ecology: A New Unified Approach" title="Quantitative Ecology: A New Unified Approach cover image" class="cover " width="658" height="885" data-controller="common--cover" data-placeholder="/assets/common/placeholder-0e0607cbc50663ddb9e8fd188058bcd2630c730ef6ee322801278607b7d5af8e.png" src="/rails/active_storage/blobs/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsiZGF0YSI6Njk5LCJwdXIiOiJibG9iX2lkIn19--9dccbc3b15dcb4f86bba5d502e4d29f57553e87f/9781946135537.png" />Quantitative Ecology introduces and discusses the principles of ecology from populations to ecosystems including human populations, disease, exotic organisms, habitat fragmentation, biodiversity and global dynamics. The book also reformulates and unifies ecological equations making them more accessible to the reader and easier to teach.7362019-06-29T15:59:04Z2024-01-22T14:52:04ZUnfolding the Mystery of Life, Biology Lab Manual for Non-Science Majors<img alt="Read more about Unfolding the Mystery of Life, Biology Lab Manual for Non-Science Majors" title="Unfolding the Mystery of Life, Biology Lab Manual for Non-Science Majors cover image" class="cover " width="640" height="828" data-controller="common--cover" data-placeholder="/assets/common/placeholder-0e0607cbc50663ddb9e8fd188058bcd2630c730ef6ee322801278607b7d5af8e.png" src="/rails/active_storage/blobs/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsiZGF0YSI6NjgxLCJwdXIiOiJibG9iX2lkIn19--32c3aa5693c4d2f503ebce9e8d61163b2dece2d1/0000MysBioNon.png" />This laboratory manual is intended for use in a biology laboratory course taken by non-science majors, pre-biology, and pre-allied health majors. Laboratory exercises provide students with experience in basic laboratory skills, gathering and organizing data, measuring and calculating, hypothesis testing, analysis of data, writing, and laboratory safety. The skill sets are designed to promote the development of critical thought and analysis. Students work with living and preserved specimens, and laboratory reagents and equipment.7112019-05-16T00:11:37Z2024-01-22T14:52:12ZAn Introduction to Nutrition<img alt="Read more about An Introduction to Nutrition" title="An Introduction to Nutrition cover image" class="cover " width="652" height="842" data-controller="common--cover" data-placeholder="/assets/common/placeholder-0e0607cbc50663ddb9e8fd188058bcd2630c730ef6ee322801278607b7d5af8e.png" src="/rails/active_storage/blobs/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsiZGF0YSI6NjU3LCJwdXIiOiJibG9iX2lkIn19--dabaad981bc79df5618464bbec9fbdc6100f76b1/0000IntrodNut.png" />Welcome to Essentials of Nutrition: A Functional Approach! This book is written for students who are not majoring in nutrition, but want to learn about the fundamental aspects of nutrition and how it applies to their own lives. We have written this book with the assumption that you have little or no prior knowledge of college level chemistry, biology, or physiology. But that does not mean it’s not scientific! Nutrition is a science-based discipline, so all the material included is backed up by rigorous scientific research, but it is presented in a clear, easy-to-understand fashion without requiring a background in science.6912019-03-20T20:20:24Z2024-01-22T14:52:03ZPhylogenetic Comparative Methods<img alt="Read more about Phylogenetic Comparative Methods" title="Phylogenetic Comparative Methods cover image" class="cover " width="652" height="846" data-controller="common--cover" data-placeholder="/assets/common/placeholder-0e0607cbc50663ddb9e8fd188058bcd2630c730ef6ee322801278607b7d5af8e.png" src="/rails/active_storage/blobs/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsiZGF0YSI6NjM3LCJwdXIiOiJibG9iX2lkIn19--c1c313252ea20db82de2a57f4109e555eb2efde9/9781719584463.png" />This is a book about Phylogenetic Comparative Methods by Luke J. Harmon.6872019-03-17T16:53:37Z2024-01-22T14:52:19ZEnvironmental Biology<img alt="Read more about Environmental Biology" title="Environmental Biology cover image" class="cover " width="350" height="525" data-controller="common--cover" data-placeholder="/assets/common/placeholder-0e0607cbc50663ddb9e8fd188058bcd2630c730ef6ee322801278607b7d5af8e.png" src="/rails/active_storage/blobs/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsiZGF0YSI6NjMzLCJwdXIiOiJibG9iX2lkIn19--7ee2cf6f22d141c1f48d7ad720953875da81c7dc/0000EnviroBio.jpg" />This open textbook covers the most salient environmental issues, from a biological perspective. The text is designed for an introductory-level college science course. Topics include the fundamentals of ecology, biodiversity, pollution, climate change, food production, and human population growth.
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