Forest Response

3.00 credits · Undergraduate

Prereq: Third-year standing; GENS 3421; or permission of Department This course examines the biogeography of global forests, past, present and future, in response to a range of environmental changes. It investigates methods of paleo-forest analysis that provide evidence of long-term forest shifts. The course also explores cumulative effects of human activities on forest ecosystems throughout the Anthropocene. Forest response to climate changes will be estimated using published models and paleoenvironmental data to forecast how forests may be reorganized. [Note 1: This course is cross-listed as GENS 4011 and may therefore count as 3 credits in either discipline.] (Format: Seminar 3 Hours) (Exclusion: GENS 3991 Environmental Change: Forest Response).