Conservation Biology.

Catalog description

Conservation Biology is discipline that develops and uses scientific approaches to protect, maintain and restore the biological diversity of Earth’s ecosystems. Students will be introduced to the conceptual and theoretical and practical foundations of conservation biology, including the ethical and theological motivations for the practice of the discipline. Specifically, the course will explore the importance of biodiversity, the causes of biodiversity decline, and the primary tools of mitigation such as reserve design, population viability analysis, sustainable harvest, and metapopulation models. Prerequisite: BIOL 351 . Additional course fee required: $20.