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GEOG 3104

Principles of Biogeography

0.5 credit · Undergraduate

Contemporary and past controls on distribution of plants and animals at global, regional and local scales; significance of these distributions.

2019

Topics

  • Environmental control: climate Lab exercise 1: Morphology and Variation Ch. 3 (45-60)
  • Environmental control: soil (cont’d) Lab exercise 2: Field Mapping Ch.3 (60-69)
  • Disturbance and succession Lab exercise 3: Climate and range Ch.5
  • Biogeographic range Lab exercise 4: Forest succession Ch. 10 + Ch.
  • Dispersal, colonization, and invasion Lab exercise 5: Tertiary range and Ch.7 (191
  • Cultural biogeography Q&A session related to Term Paper. Ch. 12
  • Biodiversity and conservation NO LAB Ch. 14 (406
  • NO CLASS NO LAB

Readings

  • “MacDonald, G. M. 2003. Biogeography: Introduction to Space, Time and Life. John Wiley & Sons”.

Prerequisites & course information

Also listed as BIOL 3608 . Prerequisite(s): GEOG 1010 or BIOL 2600 , or permission of the Department. Lectures, laboratory, and fieldwork five hours a week.

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