CLIMATE CHANGE BIOLOGY      3 Credit Hours

Catalog description

This course focuses on the biological impacts of climate change. It includes background on the issue of the biological consequences of climate change, as well as the history of research, current impacts and projected changes discussed in the Inter-Governmental Panel on Climate Change report, and the controversies of climate-change skeptics. It also includes the biogeochemistry of climate change effects on biology, climate change, and biological interactions, vector-borne infectious diseases, rates of evolution, and Great Lakes biology.