Biology 171 - SW ST:Ecology of the American West O'Brien and Arbetan

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Whitman College

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This course will explore the adaptations and relationships of organisms to their abiotic and biotic environments, with a focus on the varied ecosystems of the Hells Canyon region of northeastern Oregon and the high desert ecosystems of northern New Mexico. Particularly, we hope you will come to understand the forces impacting, and the impact of, individual organisms, as they exist over time and space, and as parts of higher levels of ecological constructs including the population, community, and ecosystem. A significant proportion of this class will be spent in the field quantifying vegetative associations and a selection of the fauna inhabiting those associations. The course is team-taught sequentially over two intensive, two-week periods. Laboratory sessions will consist primarily of fauna and flora identification, ecological monitoring techniques including vegetative plot monitoring, dry pitfall monitoring, and avian transect monitoring. Required of, and open only to students accepted to Semester in the West. Environmental studies majors may substitute this course for Biology 130 Conservation Biology or Biology 115 Regional Natural History, as an interdisciplinary foundation course in the sciences with a lab, for the major. Prerequisites: Acceptance into the Semester in the West Program. Distribution area: science with lab.

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3.00 - 4.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.whitman.edu

Phone Number:

(509) 527-5111

Regional Accreditation:

Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities

Calendar System:

Semester

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