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Welden<\/h4><div class=\"special-heading-border\"><div class=\"special-heading-inner-border\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><br \/>\n<section  class='av_textblock_section av-jrqymfzv-156feb6f52d13c9d1949d348e849593f '   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><p class=\"pop-4 dig-4 bio-cred\"><em>Professor<\/em><br \/>\nPhD, Plant Ecology Colorado State University, 1984; MS, Plant Ecology, Colorado State University, 1981; BS, General Studies, Tulane University, Cum Laude, with Honors in Biology, 1977<\/p>\n<p class=\"dig-4\"><span class=\"heavy-man\">Teaching:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul class=\"pop-4\">\n<li>Principles of Biology Evolution and Diversity (Bi212)<\/li>\n<li>Introductory Ecology (Bi340)<\/li>\n<li>Animal Behavior (Bi480\/580)<\/li>\n<li>Plant Ecology (Bi454\/554)<\/li>\n<li>Fire Ecology (ES 480)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"dig-4 heavy-man\">Research Interests<\/p>\n<p class=\"pop-4\">I am currently working on introduction new teaching methods to my courses and assessing their effectiveness in improving student learning and retention.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dig-4 heavy-man\">Publications<\/p>\n<p class=\"pop-4\">Welden, C. W. and R. A. Hossler. 2003..Evolution in the lab: Biocide resistance in E. coli. The American Biology Teacher 65:56-61.<br \/>\nDonovan, T. M. and Welden, C. W. 2001..Spreadsheet Exercises in Ecology and Evolution. 556 pp. Sinauer Assoc.<br \/>\nDonovan, T. M. and Welden, C. W. 2001. Spreadsheet Exercises in Conservation and Landscape Ecology. 464 pp. Sinauer Assoc.<br \/>\nWelden, C. W. 1999.. Using spreadsheets to teach ecological modeling. Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America 80:65-67.<br \/>\nWelden, C. W.,. S. W. Hewett, S. P. Hubbell, and R. B. Foster. 1991. Sapling survival, growth, and recruitment in relationship to canopy height in a neotropical forest. Ecology 72:35-50.<br \/>\nWelden, C. W., W. L. Slauson, and R. T. Ward. 1990.. Spatial pattern and interference in pinon-juniper woodlands of northwest Colorado. Great Basin Naturalist 50:313-319.<br \/>\nWelden, C. W., W. L. Slauson, and R. T. Ward. 1988.. Competition and abiotic stress among trees and shrubs in northwest Colorado. 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