CS 152 Spring 2006 Assignment 2 – Microsoft Word Basics 10 points

Assigned: 01/27/06

Due: 02/03/06 - At start of the class period.

I am treating this as somewhat of a pre-test. If people complete it fairly easily it means that I don’t have to talk about these things in class (or can talk individually with somebody who needs help). There will be two class periods to work on this – 1/27 and 1/30. Come to class and work on it! If things come up that a lot of people don’t know, I may interrupt to present something. Try to have this done on 1/30.

Assignment:

Using Microsoft Word, create the document shown on the attached two pages. Print it. Turn in the disk and the printed copy. It is important to follow the detailed instructions below. You need to “do the right thing” not just look like mine.

Details:

1) Change the left and right margins to 1.0 inches.

2) The title is Bold, Centered, 18 point, “Arial” font.

3) The “Formatted by” is Bold, Centered, 14 point, “Arial” font. Put your name in place of the characters “YOUR NAME”.

4) The main text is Aligned Left, 12 point, “Times New Roman” font.

5) Paragraphs after the first one are formatted so that the first line has a half-inch indentation (don’t just manually TAB each paragraph). Paragraphs’ format should include 6pt space before each regular paragraph.

6) The footnotes should be added using Microsoft Word’s footnote capabilities.

7) “Stand Management Cooperative” should be underlined.

8) Add the picture –available from my main www page for this class (named forest.jpg). Make sure that it is formatted so that text is around it (“Square”). It may be difficult to get the size of the picture exactly the same as mine (I think I re-sized it). Remember, the idea is to do what I say, not duplicate the “look”.

9) After the third paragraph, there should be a “hard” or “manual” page break, forcing the beginning of a new page after that.

10) The link to the equation should be a real working WWW link.

11) The “where:” listed are “bulletized”

12) The “zone” in Num_zone is a subscript.

13) The table should be added with Microsoft Word’s table capabilities. The formatting of the table does not have to be exactly the same as the printout, but it should be reasonably similar – I used Grid 1 auto-format.

14) The table caption should be done with Microsoft Word’s caption capabilities.

15) The “YOUR NAME” on page 2 should be replaced by your actual name, and your name should be put into italics..

16) The page header and footer should be as illustrated – footer containing the date and time the document was printed and “Page x of y”. The values that you get will differ from those seen on the sample (my document was printed before yours, and also includes the instructions!). They should be fields so they update automatically, not just typed in (i.e. if text were added leading to an additional page, the footer should automatically change. When the documented is printed again, it will automatically have a new date – ask me if you don’t know how to do this!).

17) The last paragraph in the document should be double-spaced.

18) The reference header should be 14 point, bold, centered.

19) References should be 10 point font. They should be formatted so that any lines after the first are “hanging” in by 0.5 inch (format the paragraph, don’t just hack this together). The paragraphs should have 6 pt spacing after each paragraph (reference entry). The journal names should be italicized as shown.

20) Don’t leave any misspellings in the document (understory is correct even though Word doesn’t know it. The names of people in the article are correctly spelled in my copy.)

21) Print the document.

The WWW version of this assignment is not precise as to formatting due to limitations in turning Word into html. Please see the paper copy of the assignment.

Biodiversity Indices: Roadmaps to Future Forests?[1]

Formatted by YOUR NAME

“Managed forests have come under scrutiny with regards to decreased biodiversity (Pitkänen, 1998). Yet, there does not appear to be an established quantitative measurement system(s) to address this concern (Mazzotti & Morgenstern, 1997; Kangas & Pukkala, 1996; Halpern & Spies, 1995).”

“Recently, Stand Management Cooperative understory vegetative data collected from tree-spacing research plots were utilized to test existing biodiversity measures using a standard spreadsheet program. These data were collected from several sites in British Columbia, Washington, and Oregon using two different systems for species identification (life form characterization or botanical genus and species) and percent cover to estimate species abundance. Species identification (termed species richness) and abundance are integral parts of biodiversity calculations (Magurran, 1988; Pielou, 1975).”

“Using the SMC-collected understory vegetation data from research sites with known sampling methods, eight alpha diversity measures (simple species richness and abundance counts, Margalef’s and Menhinick’s species richness indices, Shannon-Wiener index, Simpson index, Berger-Parker index, Q Statistics, and Hill’s order of indices system) were evaluated for 1) appropriateness to a conventional understory vegetation sampling method, 2) ease of calculation, 3) applicability to typical computer spreadsheet use, and 4) information produced.”

“Comparing the Stand Management Cooperative sampling methods against established methods indicates both the initial competition sampling grid and permanent survey plots used an establishment method similar to stratified random sampling. The environment, size and shape of each sample quadrant, and plant community structure under consideration are consistent. The field data collection methods are standardized and protocols are printed in the field manual available to the field crew each season. To this point, the sampling methods seem consistent with most ecological research procedures.”

Menhinick’s richness index is given on the following WWW page: http://www.lasalle.edu/~redmond/teach/152/equation.htm

where:

· Species is the number of species found in area

· N – is the number of zones surveyed

· Num_zone – is the number of individuals of all species in the given zone

Sample data illustrating Menhinick index calculations is shown in Table 1 below[2].

Table 1: Simple Sample Calculation

Species	Zone 1	Zone 2	Total
A	235	37	276
B		82	87
C			6
D	3	12	22
Total Species	238	131	369
Species Found	2	3	3
Menhinick's index	0.13	0.26	0.20

This document has been formatted by YOUR NAME as part of the CSC 152 class. I will make sure I practice anything that I didn’t know before so that I will do well when we have a test.

References

Ehrlich, P. R. and A. H. Ehrlich. 1992. The Value of Biodiversity. Ambio, 21(3):210-225.

Fairweather, P. G. 1993. Links between ecology and ecophilosophy, ethics and the requirements of environmental management. Australian Journal of Ecology, 18:3-19.

Gauch, Jr., H. G. 1989. Multivariate Analysis in Community Ecology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Goldsmith, F. B., C. M. Harrison, and A. J. Morton. 1986. Description and analysis of vegetation. Methods in Plant Ecology. 2nd ed. Moore, P. D. and S. B. Chapman, eds. Oxford: Blackwell Scientific Publications, 437-524.

Halpern, C. H. and T. A. Spies. 1995. Plant Species Diversity in Natural and Managed Forests of the Pacific Northwest. Ecological Applications, 5(4):913-934.

Hansen, A. J., T. A. Spies, F. J. Swanson, and J. L. Ohmann. 1991. Conserving Biodiversity in Managed Forests. BioScience, 41(6):382-392.

[1] Quoted material and references from http://www.cfr.washington.edu/research.smc/research/joellen4th99.htm by JoEllen Kassebaum, Evergreen College