Global Change Ecology and Sustainability

3 Credits

This course affords students the ability to critically examine and evaluate the principles of the scientific method, model construction, and use the scientific method to explain natural experiences and phenomena and examines key issues in sustainability and global environmental change from an ecological perspective. Major themes include impacts of climate change on terrestrial ecological communities; feedbacks between the terrestrial biosphere and the atmosphere; and implications of climate change for the sustainability of natural and managed ecosystems.