2023-2024 Undergraduate Catalog

ENV 2100 ECOSYSTEM SCIENCE

This course provides an introduction to ecosystem science, focusing on foundations and applications of ecology. Using tools discussed in class and lab, students will begin to understand species interactions in biological communities and relationships of these communities to environmental factors. Human impacts on the environment are examined, as are methods used to conserve and restore species and ecosystems. Laboratories stress the scientific method applied in the field, data collection, and species identification.

Credits

4

Prerequisite

ENV*1000 and BIO*1400