This perspective naturally brings in international considerations. Includes field work as well as classroom study. Stresses field work and scientific understanding of wildlife as prerequisite for planning, implementing, and evaluating management strategies. Field study of local vertebrates. By examining abiotic processes, biological communities, and human impacts students will learn to recognize and interpret the patterns and processes that make mountain ecosystems severe, diverse, and extremely fragile.
Emphasis is on the development of skills used to identify and classify plants in the field.
Hours Basic study of ecology and interrelationships in coral reefs and phylogeny of major marine plant and animal groups. Laboratory materials and field experience in a marine setting are stressed. Off campus program. This course includes the formulation and implementation of environmental policy, with special reference to the impact of political and economic factors. Specific consideration will be given to major environmental regulations.