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Dec 26, 2024
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EEB 219 - Global Change Biology3 Credit Hours
Introduction to current understanding of evolutionary, ecological, and societal responses to past, current, and future climate change. Addresses how organisms, populations, species, assemblages, communities, and ecosystems respond to changing climate conditions and examines sociocultural responses to changing climate conditions. Introduces the interdisciplinary nature of studying climate change. Exploration of the physical processes driving climate conditions and the biological and ecological basis of plant and animal responses to climate conditions. Examination of climate driven changes in terrestrial, marine, and freshwater ecosystems. Emphasis on integrating ecology, physiology, behavior, and evolution to understand biotic responses to climate conditions. Exploration of issues of human health, as well as conservation and policy in a changing environment.
Recommended Background: BIOL 150 * or BIOL 158 *.
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