GC 431 - Landscape Dynamics and Analysis

Offered Fall: Yes, Even Years Offered Winter: No Offered Summer: No Offered Other: No

4 Credits
Hours (Lecture - Discussion - Lab): 3-0-2
Prerequisites: GC 100 or BI 112, and GC 335, or instructor permission.

This course introduces students to fundamental topics in landscape ecology, the field concerned with the analysis of the relationship between ecological processes and spatial patterns on the Earth’s surface at landscape scales. Students will become proficient with key concepts, methods of analysis, and their importance in land management and conservation. Students will use analysis operations and their theoretical underpinnings to explore pattern-process relationships relating to vegetation, climate, habitat fragmentation, fire, and invasive species.

Notes: Field work may be required. Contact instructor for more information.