1. Food Web Control of Beneficial and Pest Species Who Eats What and Why Should We Care?

2. What animals would you expect to find here? What are their life requirements? What factors, abiotic and biotic, are controlling factors here?

3. What controls frogs? What limits them? What makes them successful?

4. Which species in the food web promote the presence of tadpoles in this food web? Which species may prevent tadpoles from living in a pond?

5. What are the life requirements for your focal species to complete their life cycle in an aquatic habitat? What are some of the controlling factors that may limit your focal species? What are the abiotic differences between our two ponds: 1) 2) 3) 4) 5) Not all habitats are created equal…

6. Generate your hypothesis Question 1: Which one of these treatments groups will have the highest and lowest biodiversity? Question 2: Which of these treatments will contain more of your focal species? Write a hypothesis and describe the mechanism behind it. Generate your hypothesis Pond A: 1) 2) 3) 4) Pond B: 1) 2) 3) 4)