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4.00 Credits
Two lectures and six hours of laboratory. Prerequisites: Biology 201A, 201B. Strongly recommended: Biology 352 and completion of three to six upper division units in the major. Structure, function, behavior, ecology, evolution, and relationships of major groups of terrestrial arthropods, including insects, arachnids, and myriapods. Identification and natural history of southern California diversity.
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4.00 Credits
Three lectures and three hours of laboratory. Prerequisites: Biology 215; Biology 201B or Psychology 211 and 260 for psychology majors. Biological bases of animal behavior with emphasis on the ethological approach, including the evolution and adaptive significance of behavior.
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3.00 Credits
Two lectures and three hours of laboratory. Prerequisites: Biology 201A and 201B. Recommended: Biology 350 and 354. Roles of microorganisms in soil, aquatic and marine ecosystems, microbial adaptations to the environment, and interactions within microbial communities and between microbes and multicellular organisms. Laboratory techniques to isolate and study microbes.
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4.00 Credits
Two lectures and six hours of laboratory, field trips. Prerequisites: Biology 201A, 201B. Strongly recommended: Completion of three to six upper division units in the major. Plant description, identification, classification, and nomenclature with emphasis on evolutionary patterns, interdisciplinary data acquisition, and phylogenetic analysis.
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4.00 Credits
Two lectures and six hours of laboratory. Prerequisites: Biology 201A and 201B. Fundamentals of plant taxonomy with emphasis on identification of plants native and naturalized to California. Plant collecting techniques. Field trips are required.
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4.00 Credits
Three lectures and three hours of laboratory. Prerequisites: Biology 201A and 201B. Strongly recommended: Biology 354. Plant adaptation and response to living and non-living environment including aspects of plant evolution, demography, ecophysiology community and ecosystem dynamics and soil-plant relationships. Terrestrial systems emphasized.
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3.00 Credits
Two lectures and three hours of laboratory. Prerequisites: Biology 354. Applied population modeling in context of conservation. How mathematical models can be used to simulate population dynamics of single and multiple species and rank conservation management options.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisites: Biology 354. History of biological conservation and environmental laws; regulations governing biological resources; role of biologists; environmental impact analysis, operation of regulatory and resource agencies; biologists as expert witnesses; wetland protection and mitigation, state heritage programs, role of nongovernmental agencies.
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3.00 Credits
Two lectures and three hours of laboratory. Prerequisites: Biology 354. Human impacts on ecosystems, the resultant endangerment and extinction of plant and animal species, and strategies for the protection and recovery of threatened forms.
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3.00 Credits
Two lectures and three hours of laboratory. Prerequisites: Biology 354. Ecology of fishes, including environmental constraints, habitats, feeding, behavior, growth, reproduction, biotic interactions, population dynamics and assemblage structure. Fisheries biology concepts, including stock recruitment models, climates and fisheries, density dependence and population regulation, and populations dynamics theory.
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