Course Description
This course combines lectures, student-led
discussions, field trips and computer exercises to provide graduate-level training
in landscape ecology and its applications to environmental management. We examine
the role of ecosystem spatial patterns in mass and energy transfers, disturbance
regimes, population dynamics and community processes. The course also introduces
students to the application of remote sensing, GIS, pattern analysis and spatially
explicit models for landscape characterization and modeling.The course
consists of lectures (Mondays), discussions, computer labs (Wednesdays) and
field trips (Fridays or Saturdays). Your grade will be based on class
participation, exercises, and a term project. There is no final exam.
