Overview
Description
Forest and range soil characterization, physical properties, and biogeochemistry as affected by management, pollutants, and disturbances. Field trips required.
Requirements
Units
Lecture2
Laboratory Studio1
Catalog Details
Offering
Offered: Every Spring
Terms
spring
Core
CO14
Attributes
Standard
Learning Outcomes
- communicate, in writing or verbally, an understanding of important forest and range soil properties and processes relating to the biology, physics, and chemistry of soils.
- identify and characterize forest and range soils in the field.
- demonstrate, in writing, an understanding of plant-soil feedbacks, aboveground and belowground interactions, and the relationship between forest and range management and soils.
- communicate, in writing or verbally, the ways that disturbances, including human-induced global change, impact forest and range soils as a natural resource.
- use the scientific method to propose and test a research question pertaining to forest and range soils, specifically how forest or range vegetation properties are associated with soil characteristics.
- analyze and interpret data collected in lab exercises, articulate the analysis in an oral presentation, and write the results in a format appropriate for an academic journal.