Construct an Independent Project Outline that could be done in San Diego, CA using mark recapture, animal behavior or intermediate disturbance hypothesis.

Here are some general tips for the independent project:

• Remember the difference between a topic (e.g., species abundance and diversity, habitat restoration, etc). and a study system (species of study or habitat/environment).
• You will need to conduct a literature search to write your Independent Project Outline. If you don’t know the ecological background about your topic & study system, you won’t be able to set up a project to learn more about it!
• Consider one these the labs (mark-recapture/habitat preference, animal behavior, intermediate disturbance hypothesis). For your project, you can use the same general experimental design from any of these labs & perform it on a different study system or environment. You can come up with your own experimental design too
• Make sure to choose a study system that is relatively abundant. Projects become increasingly less interesting if we don’t have enough data to analyze.

DON’T FORGET THAT IT NEEDS TO BE A SPECIES IN SAN DIEGO!

The rubric is attached!