AGROECOSYSTEMS AND GLOBAL CHANGE

Prerequisites & course information

Requisites: Graduate/professional standing Course Designation: Grad 50% - Counts toward 50% graduate coursework requirement Repeatable for Credit: No Last Taught: Fall 2025 Learning Outcomes: 1. Explain key physical, biological, and social drivers of change to agroecosystems on planet Earth Audience: Graduate 2. Apply important biophysical and biological concepts to describe how a changing climate and changes in atmospheric composition impact agricultural systems Audience: Graduate 3. Describe how agricultural land management impacts the Earth’s climate system through changing biogeochemical cycling Audience: Graduate 4. Discuss how agricultural land management impacts Earth’s climate system through biogeophysical processes that effect energy and water balance in the soil-plant-atmosphere system Audience: Graduate 5. Identify and summarize ecosystem services that are impacted by agroecosystems and land management decision-making, and how this effects global environmental sustainability Audience: Graduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Explain key physical, biological, and social drivers of change to agroecosystems on planet Earth Audience: Graduate 2. Apply important biophysical and biological concepts to describe how a changing climate and changes in atmospheric composition impact agricultural systems Audience: Graduate 3. Describe how agricultural land management impacts the Earth’s climate system through changing biogeochemical cycling Audience: Graduate 4. Discuss how agricultural land management impacts Earth’s climate system through biogeophysical processes that effect energy and water balance in the soil-plant-atmosphere system Audience: Graduate 5. Identify and summarize ecosystem services that are impacted by agroecosystems and land management decision-making, and how this effects global environmental sustainability Audience: Graduate