Landscape Ecology and Biogeography
Biogeography is the study of the changing distributions of plants, animals, and ecosystems. It can be applied to study the conservation of natural environments, for example in nature reserves, or of species of special concern. One such application, Landscape Ecology, focuses on the study of the ecology of physical and biotic landscapes through time. This includes geoecology, the study of the relationships of plant and animal species and communities with surficial processes, geomorphology, and soils. The field of Landscape Ecology developed in the United States in the 1970s and has become a major area of growth in ecology through the applications of earth science approaches, quantitative methods, remote sensing, and GISc to ecological issues.
The full catalog of courses we offer is listed here, and you will find many that fall under the track of Landscape Ecology and Biogeography geography. However, some examples that are regularly offered by are faculty are:
GRG 306C: Conservation
GRG 335N: Landscape Ecology
GRG 334C: Environmental Hazards
GRG 338C: Fluvial Geomorphology
GRG 356T Ecological Restoration
GRG 356: Water Resources: Latin America/Caribbean
GRG 356C Geoarchaeology and Environmental History
GRG 356T.3. Geographical Information Systems and Remote Sensing for Archaeology and Paleontology
GRG 356D. Water Resources in Latin America and the Caribbean
GRG 360G. Environmental Geographic Information Systems
GRG 366C: Comparative Ecosystems
GRG 367K. Vegetation Ecology
GRG 367D. Climate Change and Vegetation Response in the Kalahari
GRG 366K: Biogeography
GRG 339, 439. Process Geomorphology
GRG 330W, 430W. Water and Watersheds
GRG334L. Vulnerability to Natural Hazards in Latin America and the Caribbean
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