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Landscape Ecology Program includes teaching-related activites. This page
describes the principle on-campus courses taught by Dr. McGarigal, including
a graduate-level course in landscape ecology. The course catelog description
is given below. For more detailed information about the course, including
syllabus, lecture notes, slide presentations and more, click on the 'course
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| Introduction to the field of landscape ecology; focus
on methods for detecting and characterizing landscape patterns, how
patterns develop on landscapes, ecological consequences of landscape
patterns, landscape dynamics, and landscape management. Prerequisite:
graduate status in Natural Resources Conservation, Organismic and
Evolutionary Biology, or consent of instructor. Fall semester
odd years. 4 credits. |
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| Ecosystem management and how it is defined by various
organizations. The historical context and key contributing ecological
concepts of ecosystem management and alternative approaches for its
implementation. Prerequisite: senior or graduate status in
Natural Resources Conservation or consent of instructor. Spring
semester every year. 4 credits. |
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| Multivariate
Statistics for Wildlife and Ecology Research (NRC 631) |
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| Conceptual and practical guide to the use of multivariate
statistics in ecological applications and the relationships among
various techniques. Emphasis on ordination, cluster analysis, and
discriminant analysis. Detailed examples use real wildlife data sets
analyzed using the SAS statistical software program. Prerequisite:
graduate status in Natural Resources Conservation, Organismic and
Evolutionary Biology, or consent of instructor. Fall semester
even years. 4 credits. |
