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CALIFORNIA ECOSYSTEMS

Course Code:
BIO 286
Course Group(s):
ENVIRONMENTAL BIOLOGY ELECTIVES, UPPER-LEVEL BIO, FIELD STUDIES AND TRAVEL
Active Term:
Spring Term
/ Randomly
Course Description:

Introduction to the diverse ecosystems of California including coastal beach and dune, tide pools, redwood forest, oak woodland, numerous montane forests, subalpine woodland, and high desert. This course is a course done during a 12-day field trip to northern California following conclusion of spring semester, staying in campgrounds in tents and/or cabins overnight. Students will learn the dominant plants of California ecosystems, important aspects of their ecology, and the history and future of human disturbance in those ecosystems.

Credit:
3
Instruction methods:
Field
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