|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Course Criteria
Add courses to your favorites to save, share, and find your best transfer school.
-
1.00 Credits
Field-based course. Student design and implementation of ecological projects in different tropical ecological zones. Introduces basic concepts in statistical populations, sampling techniques, and experimental design and hypothesis testing. Topics include: measuring abiotic micro- and macroclimatic variables; estimating population abundance and distribution; performing demographic and life history analyses; investigating mutualistic, competitive, and predator-prey coevolutionary processes; and measuring patterns of species diversity. (Taught in Costa Rica.) Instructor: Staff
-
1.00 Credits
Four-week summer course in Costa Rica on the scientific study of subsistence, medicinal, ceremonial, and esthetic use of plants and animals by human societies. Lectures and demonstrations in San Jos<130>. Travel to southern Costa Rica to learn the use of resources in contrasting communities including Zancudo coastal community, Abrojos Guaymi Indian Reservation, and Guatil, a Chorotega Indian village. Offered by the Organization for Tropical Studies in Costa Rica from mid-July to mid-August. Prerequisites: one semester of biology and Spanish. Taught at G<162>mez, Las Cruces Biological Station/Wilson Botanical Garden. Instructor: Staff
-
1.00 Credits
Conceptual themes in ecology emphasizing savannas; also consideration of fynbos, highveld, podocarp forests, coastal and intertidal zones. Topics include climate and geology of South Africa; roles of fire, drought, human presence, invasive species, and herbivores in shaping ecosystems; top-down and bottom-up control of mammalian herbivores; plant pollination and seed dispersal; role of rivers in defining savanna characteristics; origin and maintenance of biodiversity; vertebrate social systems; major research programs in Kruger National Park (taught in Kruger National Park, South Africa). Prerequisite: Biology 10 or 25L or introductory ecology. Instructor: McClearn
-
1.00 Credits
Field-based course stressing student design and implementation of research projects in savana ecosystems. Introduces basic concepts in experimental design and hypothesis testing, long-term monitoring, sampling techniques, parametric and nonparametric analysis. Each student will participate in several faculty-led research projects. In addition, students in small groups will design independent projects, consult with faculty, collect and analyze data, and make oral and written presentations of their results. Each student will work on two of these independent projects. (Taught in Kruger National Park, South Africa) Prerequisite: Biology 10 or 25L or introductory ecology or equivalent. Instructor: Staff
-
1.00 Credits
Field-based study of plant diversity. Collection, identification, and ecology of plant species in a specific forested location. Biodiversity informatics, plant evolution, and ecology. Instructor: Shaw
-
1.00 Credits
Major groups of living plants, their evolutionary origins and phylogenetic relationships. Fee for field trip. Prerequisite: Biology 25L or 102L or equivalent. Instructor: Shaw
-
1.00 Credits
Overview of plant communities in the mountains, piedmont, and costal plain of North Carolina, primarily through field trips. The dominant native plants of each community; the biology and identification of important invasive species. Required weekend field trip to the mountains, and several weekend day trips. Instructor: Manos
-
1.00 Credits
Plants as providers of food, shelter, and medicine and as one of evolution's great success stories. Phylogenetic principles and methods of analysis used to recognize major families of vascular plants. Flowering plants and the evolution of floral form and function, pollination, and breeding systems. Sources of taxonomic evidence including morphology, anatomy, and DNA. Both traditional and modern identification tools. The interdisciplinary nature of plant systematics and its importance in modern society. Prerequisite: Biology 19 or 25L or 102L. Field trips. Instructor: Pryer
-
1.00 Credits
Identification, classification, evolution, and ecology of bryophytes (mosses, liverworts, and hornworts). An ecological survey of bryophytes in their natural habitats focusing on the skills required to identify bryophytes and use them as indicators of environmental features. Natural plant communities of the southeastern United States. Uses of bryophytes for ecological assessment. Instructor: Shaw
-
1.00 Credits
Biology from an engineering perspective. Emphasis on biological processes that inform engineering decisions. Topics include: environmental chemicals, biological command and control, nanostructures, e-waste, biology and engineered materials, organotoxins, metaltoxins, nanotoxins, biofouling, biomemetics, biological glues, biocorrosion, biodegradation, bioremediation, biological resistance, and biological virulence. Environmental and human health policy. (Given at Beaufort.) Prerequisite: introductory chemistry. Instructor: Rittschof.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Privacy Statement
|
Terms of Use
|
Institutional Membership Information
|
About AcademyOne
Copyright 2006 - 2024 AcademyOne, Inc.
|
|
|