BIOL 470, Landscape Ecology
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Please Note: These course descriptions are for 2009-10
*3 (fi 6) (second term, 3-0-3). Landscape Ecology.
Landscapes are holistic entities whose patterns influence ecological processes. Topics highlighted in this course include landscape components, morphology and dynamics; detecting spatial/temporal change in landscapes; issues of scales; movements of organisms, disturbances, and nutrients across landscape mosaics; and restoration, planning and management in a landscape context. Labs emphasize GIS applications to characterizing landscape patterns and heterogeneity in space and time, distributing and moving organisms across landscapes, and restoring or planning landscapes for conservation objectives. Prerequisites: MATH 115; STAT 151 or SCI 100 one of BIOL 331, 332 or BOT 332. Previous GIS course is useful. Consent of instructor is required.
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Last Modified: 2002-08-15