Develops critical reading skills, understanding of frameworks of the policy process and political behavior, and an ability to apply multiple frameworks to the same phenomena. Offered in alternate years. Offered in alternate years. Multi-disciplinary analysis of geometric and temporal landscape change applied to conservation. Population and economic change are examined in the context of the spread of urban, rural and transportation systems in fragmentation of habitat.
Laboratory applies methodologies to analysis of specific sites.
Offered in alternate years. Review of principles that govern thermal and energy relations of organisms and the application of energy budget analysis to diverse ecological problems. Offered in alternate years. Ecological principles and relationships as applied to agriculture. Integration of ecological approaches into agricultural research to develop environmentally sound management practices.