BIOL 230 - Field Biogeography and Species Conservation

FDR: SL
Credits: 4
Planned Offering: Spring, when departmental resources permit

Prerequisites: BIOL 111 and 113 or permission of the instructor. Corequisite: English 294.This course emphasizes the patterns of diversity encountered during visits to different regional plant communities where we use professional floristic works to identify vascular plants. In addition, evolutionary and ecological explanations for patterns of distribution and extinction, and the lessons these teach for conservation, are explored. (SL, GE5a) Laboratory course.Staff.