THE VEGETATION OF WISCONSIN

Prerequisites & course information

Requisites: ZOOLOGY/BIOLOGY/BOTANY 151 , BOTANY/BIOLOGY 130 , ZOOLOGY/BIOLOGY 101 , BIOCORE 381 , or graduate/professional standing Course Designation: Core GenEd - Natural Science & Wellness + Lab Breadth - Biological Science Level - Intermediate L&S Credit - L&S Liberal Arts and Science Grad 50% - Counts toward 50% graduate coursework requirement Repeatable for Credit: No Last Taught: Fall 2024 Learning Outcomes: 1. Recognize how ecologists learn about the composition, structure, dynamics, and diversity of Wisconsin plant communities and ecosystems. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 2. Summarize how the patterns in plant communities relate to spatial variation in climate, soils, glacial history, and recent disturbance regimes. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 3. Determine the biological properties of species in different communities and how those properties set their distributions along environmental gradients. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 4. Identify the ongoing and likely future human impacts on Wisconsin's environment and vegetation. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 5. Articulate how ecologists conceptualize problems, form hypotheses, test predictions, and relate such predictions to issues of land management and public policy. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 6. Apply field and/or data science methods to analyze vegetation patterns, community assembly dynamics, and responses to environmental change. Audience: Graduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Recognize how ecologists learn about the composition, structure, dynamics, and diversity of Wisconsin plant communities and ecosystems. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 2. Summarize how the patterns in plant communities relate to spatial variation in climate, soils, glacial history, and recent disturbance regimes. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 3. Determine the biological properties of species in different communities and how those properties set their distributions along environmental gradients. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 4. Identify the ongoing and likely future human impacts on Wisconsin's environment and vegetation. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 5. Articulate how ecologists conceptualize problems, form hypotheses, test predictions, and relate such predictions to issues of land management and public policy. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 6. Apply field and/or data science methods to analyze vegetation patterns, community assembly dynamics, and responses to environmental change. Audience: Graduate