Conservation Biology.

Catalog description

This introduction to conservation biology and biodiversity covers the factors that make a species vulnerable to extinction and the strategies and tools that can be used to protect species and ecosystems. The main focus of this course is biological, but it is interdisciplinary and reaches into ethics, economics, and sociology. The explicit goal of this discipline is to conserve biodiversity at all levels of organization from genetics to populations, species, communities and ecosystems. Fall. Prerequisites: Completion of at least 4 of the following courses: BIO 116, BIO 122 , BIO 130, BIO 140 , CHE 120 , EAS 115 , EAS 120 , EAS 125 , EAS 126 , EAS 130 , ECR 102 , ECR 108 , ECR 120 , ECR 197 .