BIOL 340 - Tropical Ecology

3 Credit(s)

This course examines the nature, evolution, structural and functional components, and relationships that exist within tropical forests worldwide. A broad range of topics covering the physical, biological, and chemical aspects of tropical environments are explored. Specific topics include forest succession and architecture, tropical microclimate, vertical organization of canopy biota, evolution of tropical plants, tropical parasites, decomposition and nutrient cycling, plant/animal coevolutionary interactions, survival strategies, and the evolutionary history of tropical forests. This course is open to upper-division biology and environmental science majors. Fulfills one interorganismal biology elective.
3 hours lecture.
Prerequisite(s): BIOL 161, BIOL 162.

(SAME AS ENVR 340)