BIOL 4065 - Biodiversity

Credit Hours: (3)

Description: Survey of Earth’s biodiversity – the variety of life on Earth – on ecological and evolutionary timescales, focused on primary scientific literature; numbers and kinds of organisms; processes that create and maintain biodiversity; distribution of biodiversity on Earth; extinction; how/where biodiversity is threatened; importance of biodiversity to humans; wilderness, conservation and future of biodiversity. Three lecture hours per week. PREREQUISITE: BIOL 3130 or BIOL 3500, or permission of instructor.