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
Recommended Preparation
- GIS and experience with Excel and R.
Original catalog text
Recommended Preparation
GIS and experience with Excel and R.
Units
Lecture2
Laboratory Studio1
Catalog Details
Offering
Offered: Every Spring
Terms
spring
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.
- synthesize the diverse application of landscape ecological principles with other branches of ecology.