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✽ BIO 223 - Biodiversity & Conservation

4.0 Credits
This course provides a positive, “solutions-based”, interdisciplinary approach to biodiversity and conservation. Areas of focus are selected from topics including history of life, evolution of biodiversity, patterns of distribution and abundance. More topics: primary ecosystems, cultural survival, conservation philosophy, innovations in nature, medical botany, sustainable agriculture, biomimicry, keystone species, hotspots, ecological triage, sustainable tourism, emergent intelligence education, biological consequences of world views, natural ecosystem management, theory of island biogeography, nature reserve design, new technologies, careers in conservation and restoration of our world’s ecosystems. Requires instructor approval.”
LEC 45 Contact hours LAB 30 Contact hours



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