BIO-431 Landscape Ecology and Conservation

Prerequisite: Any one of the following: BIO-102, BIO-111 , EES-112, or SUS-120
This course provides students with a foundation at the intersection of conservation biology and landscape ecology. Students will engage with concepts and competencies needed to read, conserve, and restore landscapes across natural and managed ecosystems. Theory and application will focus on the landscape scale in local, regional, and global contexts. The course entails a variety of topics including species diversity over space and time, population and metapopulation viability analyses, habitat fragmentation, heterogeneity and connectivity, ecosystem services, valuation, and coupled human-natural systems. Labs will focus on current techniques in landscape and conservation using R, stakeholder engagement, and writing for conservation plans. 4 credits.