NTRES 4201

Forest Ecology Laboratory

Course Description

Course information provided by the 2022-2023 Catalog. Courses of Study 2022-2023 is scheduled to publish mid-June.

Field trips designed to familiarize students with the nature of regional forests and to provide experience with approaches to quantifying forest composition and its relation to environmental factors. Includes group research projects in local forests.

Prerequisites/Corequisites Corequisite: NTRES 4200.

Fees Field trip fee: approximately $30 for optional weekend trips.

Course Attribute (CU-SBY)

Last 4 Terms Offered (None)

Outcomes

• Learn to identify forest trees of the Northeast.
• Better understand approaches for quantifying forest composition and structure and for summarizing and analyzing data.
• Learn how to measure key environmental factors and plant physiological processes in forests.
• Learn to "read" the forested landscape and to infer the processes and patterns of forest tree distributions.
• Gain experience with the process of field scientific research including proposal development, data collection and analysis and preparation of scientific manuscript.

Distribution Category (OPHLS-AG)

When Offered Fall.

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