WFSC625

043780

Spatial heterogeneity plays a fundamental role in ecological patterns and processes including many that are critical to the study, management, and conservation of wildlife. Understanding this role is the foundational theme of landscape ecology. Landscape ecology provides a suite of conceptual and analytical tools that can help better understand and model the role of spatial heterogeneity on wildlife and their environments. This course will introduce fundamental concepts and tools from landscape ecology including definitions of landscape ecology, the role scale in ecology, metrics for characterizing landscape patterns, modeling landscape disturbance-succession dynamics, and approaches for modeling connectivity.

GRD - Regular Grades A, B, C, D, E

Graduate