Overview
Description
Principles and procedures of landscape ecology and application to contemporary ecological and natural resource management issues. Reciprocal interactions between landscape pattern and ecological process.
Requirements
Units
Lecture2
Laboratory Studio1
Catalog Details
Offering
Offered: Every Spring
Terms
spring
Core
CO11, CO13
Attributes
Standard
Learning Outcomes
- articulate connections between ecosystems examined at local to global scales.
- integrate knowledge from all aspects of landscape ecology into their understanding of other branches of ecology.
- apply the tools of geographic and spatial analysis, GIS, and spatially-explicit simulation modeling to problems in natural resource management, conservation biology, and landscape planning.
- demonstrate methods to solve ecological problems in a spatial context.
- model approaches to forecast the ecological effects of changes in landscape pattern.
- demonstrate familiarity with a wide range of landscape ecological topics and methods.