Overview
Description
Brief treatment of plant and animal evolution. Prehistoric, historic and present-day world-wide distribution of plant formations and associated animal life. Examples of human impact on biotic life such as domestications, transfers and extinctions.
Units
Lecture3
Catalog Details
Offering
Offered: Every Fall
Terms
fall
Related Courses
Cross Listed With GEOG 634
Attributes
Standard
Learning Outcomes
- describe the history of ideas in biogeography.
- identify the major biomes on earth.
- explain how geographical barriers to dispersal and environmental variation influence species ranges.
- explain the role of dispersal in population subdivision and speciation.
- discuss the geography of speciation and extinction.
- discuss phylogenetics and its place in the study of biogeography.
- discuss the roles of ecology and evolution in biogeography, and vice versa.
- explain biogeographical patterns and processes in insular systems.
- synthesize orally or in writing as assessed by a presentation and/or written report significance of current topic as presented in this course.