NRES 475 - Landscape Ecology

(3 units) CO11, CO13

Principles and procedures of landscape ecology and application to contemporary ecological and natural resource management issues. Reciprocal interactions between landscape pattern and ecological process.

Maximum units a student may earn: 3

Prerequisite(s): NRES 310 or NRES 345 or NRES 447. Recommended Preparation: GIS and experience with Excel and R.

Grading Basis: Graded
Units of Lecture: 2
Units of Laboratory/Studio: 1
Offered: Every Spring

Student Learning Outcomes
Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:
1. articulate connections between ecosystems examined at local to global scales.
2. integrate knowledge from all aspects of landscape ecology into their understanding of other branches of ecology.
3. apply the tools of geographic and spatial analysis, GIS, and spatially-explicit simulation modeling to problems in natural resource management, conservation biology, and landscape planning.
4. demonstrate methods to solve ecological problems in a spatial context.
5. model approaches to forecast the ecological effects of changes in landscape pattern.
6. demonstrate familiarity with a wide range of landscape ecological topics and methods.

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