Given in the context of ethical and global questions of deforestation, global warming trends, old growth forest values, lumbering, forest ecosystem restoration, and land stewardship. The interrelationships between animals and their biotic and physical environments, including behavioural aspects. This is a field course which centres on the autecology of northern Michigan fauna from a stewardship perspective. Included are studies of a resident population of beavers. Biology 322-AS Aquatic Biology AS Ecology, identification, systematics, culture, and care of aquatic plants and animals, and adaptations to freshwater environments.
Aquatic life is studied in lakes, ponds, bogs, marshes, and streams and in the laboratory.
The course assesses human impacts on aquatic species and ecosystems, presents procedures for the stewardship of aquatic habitats, and introduces aquatic restoration ecology. Biology 342-AS Fish Biology and Ecology AS Identification, ecology, exploitation and stewardship of fish and their habitats. Field studies include non-commercial fisheries in the Great Lakes region, ecological dynamics of fisheries exploitation and population ecology, fishing techniques, and fishing rights and regulation. Biology 361-AS Natural History in Spring AS Springtime plants and animals, their field identification, field biology, behaviour and landscape context, with a focus on spring flora, amphibians and birds. Biology 390-AS Directed Individual Study AS Field or laboratory study of a problem selected by the student in consultation with a professor, and presented as a written proposal in advance of the session in which the study is to be conducted.