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3.00 Credits
Management science and operational techniques in forestry. Road layout, construction, and machine systems: harvesting machine optimization and selection. Harvesting, production and forest planning. Linear programming, queuing, decision and inventory theory, and other techniques for solving problems typically encountered in forest operations management. Credit not allowed for both FOR 534 and FOR 434.
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3.00 Credits
Methods, principles, syntax, logic and language elements associated with creating and running Visual Basic and VB for applications programs. Learn the VB programming environment, interface tools, ArcObjects and MapObjects. Basic language elements include data types and definitions, arrays, user defined data structures, event structures, decision structures, loops, error handlers, special effects, modules, procedures, string processing, databases and connecting to Microsoft Office, GIS and GPS applications.
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3.00 Credits
Identification and life histories of native and naturalized woody plants. Use of taxonomic manuals and literature. Identification of problematic groups. Concentration on North America, with discussion of other continents. Overnight field trips to natural forest communities.
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3.00 Credits
Principles and techniques for utilizing spatial information in natural resource inventory and analysis. Interpretation of conventional aerial photographs, principles of photogrammetry, sources of spatial data layers, and introductions to non-photographic remote sensing and digital photogrammetry.
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1.00 Credits
Species composition, distribution, site requirements, and succession of principal forest communities of southeastern Coastal Plain. Identification of important member plant species. Overnight field trips to typical examples.
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1.00 Credits
Species composition, distribution, site requirements, and succession of principal forest communities of southern Appalachians. Identification of important member plant species. Overnight field trips to typical examples.
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3.00 Credits
Views organisms and physical environment as integrated system. Outlines processes governing assimilation and cycling of energy, carbons, nutrients, and water. Evaluates ecosystem responses to intensive management, global climate change, air pollution, biofuels production, fragmentation, large-scale land use change. Illustrates application of ecosystem science approach to important regional and global questions through scaling of empirical, ecosystem-level data, ongoing research. Provides experience in hypothesis testing and experimental design, data analysis and interpretation, proposal development, and publication for research professionals. Graduate Standing.
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3.00 Credits
Agronomic, ecological and economic concepts of sustainability, with emphasis on application in developing countries; forest, soil and wildlife resources; models in conservation biology; historical, cultural and sociological perspectives; policy analysis. Offered as part of the program of the Center for World Environment and Sustainable Development.
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3.00 Credits
Principles of tropical ecology, dendrology and agroforestry. Primary emphasis on establishment and management of tropical plantations with lesser emphasis on natural stands. Operation and management of tropical nurseries.
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3.00 Credits
Discussion and evaluation about assessing and modeling habitat capability for wildlife species. Student development of models of habitat requirements for wildlife species and integration of models into wildlife management plans. Laboratory exercisesinclude manipulation of habitat management computer packages and development of a wildlife management plan.
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