GC
431
Landscape Dynamics and Analysis
4 cr.
(3-0-2)
- Offered: Fall, Even Years
- Prerequisites: GC 100 or BI 112, and GC 335, or instructor permission.
- Bulletin Year: 2023 - 2024 Undergraduate Bulletin
This course introduces students to fundamental topics in landscape ecology, the field concerned with the analysis of the relationship between ecological processes and spatial patterns on the Earth’s surface at landscape scales. Students will become proficient with key concepts, methods of analysis, and their importance in land management and conservation. Students will use analysis operations and their theoretical underpinnings to explore pattern-process relationships relating to vegetation, climate, habitat fragmentation, fire, and invasive species.