4 CreditsBiological SciencesEnvironmentGoal 3a - Biological SciencePeople and the EnvironmentWriting & Information LiteracyWriting Intensive
The geography of biodiversity and productivity, from conspicuous species to those that cause human disease and economic hardship. The roles played by evolution and extinction, fluxes of energy, water, biochemicals, and dispersal. Experiments demonstrating interactions of managed and unmanaged biotic with the hydrologic cycle, energy budgets, nutrient cycles, the carbon budget, and soil processes.