2024-25 ecotypes survey and mcjd form now available

[James Proctor]

Dear all, I now have all 2024-25 EcoTypes resources online; please read below for important information, whether you are new to EcoTypes or a prior instructional user.

• The 2024-25 scheme of EcoTypes is new; see here for rationale, and here for resultant EcoTypes. The 2024-25 followup (MCJD) form is heavily revised as well. I have updated site resources accordingly. (There have been other minor tweaks, including an update to the hybrid Nature axis statement to correspond to the survey, and offer better theoretical grounding while hopefully maintaining readability...you'll see that below.)
• Since some of you have been using the 2023-24 EcoTypes survey and related resources over the last several weeks, I have placed the 2023-24 survey FAQ and report retrieval at the bottom of the Survey menu. If you direct a student to the 2023-24 survey, they will be notified, with a link, to go to the current survey.
• As a result of both of the above, there will certainly be glitches here and there with text and links. **Please notify me via email**, or ask your students to notify me via the question form, when you find an issue; thanks.

I intend to share with you updated documentation on the EcoTypes survey and MCJD form over the next week, but I am placing these resources online just now so you can prepare for your fall courses. Please remember to email me and request a group code if you plan on heavy use of the EcoTypes survey; what you'll receive in return is a nicely formatted set of anonymized student data with rudimentary analysis tabs.

Thank you for your patience, and be touch to help me polish EcoTypes 2024-25.

Regards,

Jim P.

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Nature axis

• Previous hybrid Nature statement: Many landscapes have already been affected by humans, so it's naive to just let nature take its course.
• New hybrid Nature statement: "Nature" is a social construction; many "natural" landscapes have been shaped by humans.

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