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WILD 3300 - Management Aspects of Wildlife Behavior (CI)
CI Communications Intensive
3 credits
Principles, concepts, and mechanisms of animal behavior, emphasizing behavioral ecology, development, and comparative aspects of special relevance to management of fish and wildlife.
Prerequisite/Restriction: BIOL 1610 , BIOL 1620 , and BIOL 2220 /NR 2220 .
Semester(s) Traditionally Offered: Spring
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WILD 3600 - Wildland Plant Ecology and Identification
4 credits
Autecology and identification of dominant grass, forb, and woody plants of the Intermountain West. Emphasizes native species; however, introduced or noxious weeds are included. Explores plant structure and function, as related to the environment. Enrollment limited to WILD Department majors. Department authorization required for all nonmajors.
Semester(s) Traditionally Offered: Fall
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WILD 3610 - Wildland Animal Ecology and Identification
4 credits
Autecology and identification of important mammals, birds, reptiles, and amphibians of the Intermountain West. Emphasizes native species distribution and habitat requirements in relation to the environment.
Prerequisite/Restriction: NR 2220 /BIOL 2220 . Enrollment limited to WILD Department majors. Department authorization required for all nonmajors.
Semester(s) Traditionally Offered: Fall
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WILD 3800 - Wildland Ecosystems
3 credits
Structure, function, and dynamics of terrestrial ecosystems in response to natural and anthropogenic impacts, with emphasis on the vegetation of the Intermountain West and Great Plains.
Prerequisite/Restriction: NR 2220 /BIOL 2220 ; and PSC 3000 (or concurrent enrollment).
Semester(s) Traditionally Offered: Spring
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WILD 3810 - Plant and Animal Populations
3 credits
Basics of plant and animal population ecology, including population regulation, life histories, single and multi-species interactions, and metapopulations. Case studies will cover topics of both management and conservation concern.
Prerequisite/Restriction: NR 2220 /BIOL 2220 , MATH 1100 or higher.
Semester(s) Traditionally Offered: Spring
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WILD 4000 - Principles of Rangeland Management
3 credits
Modern principles of rangeland management, including history of the profession, ecology, plant physiology, impacts of grazing on individual plants and plant communities, grazing management, range animal nutrition, rangeland watersheds, and the economics and planning of rangeland practices. Also introduces range-wildlife relations and vegetation manipulation.
Semester(s) Traditionally Offered: Spring
3 |
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WILD 4250 - Advanced Internship/Co-op
1-9 credits
Advanced-level educational experience in internship/cooperative education position approved by department.
Prerequisite/Restriction: Departmental signature.
Semester(s) Traditionally Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
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WILD 4500 - Principles of Wildlife Management
3 credits
Provides students with a working knowledge of the application of basic concepts in ecology and animal behavior to the management of wildlife resources to achieve diverse objectives of conservation, control, or cropping.
Prerequisite/Restriction: WILD 3610 and WILD 3810 .
Semester(s) Traditionally Offered: Spring
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WILD 4520 - Wildland Fire Behavior
3 credits
Comprehensive examination of fuels, weather, and topography and how they interact to determine wildland fire behavior, including rate of spread, energy release, and intensity.
Repeatable for credit.
Campus: WebCT.
Semester(s) Traditionally Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
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WILD 4550 - Wildlife Law Enforcement
3 credits
Explores essential topics relating to enforcement of wildlife and other natural resource laws, including applicable state and federal laws, policy formulation, rights of the individual, search and seizure, field forensic procedures, and the judicial process.
Semester(s) Traditionally Offered: Fall
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WILD 4600 - Conservation Biology
3 credits
Patterns and processes creating biological diversity. Causes and consequences of diversity losses from genes to ecosystems, including habitat fragmentation and exotic invasion. Conservation laws and organizations. Approaches to conserving diversity loss, including reserve design, corridors, and species reintroductions.
Prerequisite/Restriction: NR 2220 /BIOL 2220 .
Semester(s) Traditionally Offered: Spring
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WILD 4700 - Ecological Foundations of Restoration
3 credits
An advanced plant ecology course emphasizing topics especially relevant to successful establishment of plants in disturbed environments and restoration of functioning dynamic ecosystems. It covers basic ecological processes from the population the ecosystem level and applications to ecological restoration.
Prerequisite/Restriction: NR 2220 or BIOL 2220
Semester(s) Traditionally Offered: Spring
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WILD 4750 - Monitoring and Assessment in Natural Resource and Environmental Management (CI)
CI Communications Intensive
3 credits
Lectures, laboratory exercises, and field-based projects introduce students to the concepts, strategies, and analytical methods of natural resource and environmental monitoring and assessment.
Prerequisite/Restriction: BIOL 2220 /NR 2220 ; MATH 1100 or higher; STAT 2000 or STAT 3000
Semester(s) Traditionally Offered: Fall
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WILD 4810 - Directed Reading in Wildlife Damage Management
2 credits
Focuses on wildlife damage management, especially as it reflects on both positive and negative human-wildlife interactions. For this reading course, students work with instructor to develop appropriate and rigorous reading program.
Semester(s) Traditionally Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
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WILD 4830 - Directed Reading in Wildlife Biology
1-3 credits
Papers selected for the course cover a wide range of topics in wildlife biology concerning a variety of vertebrate species. The goal is to expand the student’s awareness of advances in the field of wildlife biology by reading from a range of topics that give the student new perspectives and information on this fascinating field of study. Repeatable for additional credit every 12 months.
Repeatable for credit
Semester(s) Traditionally Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
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WILD 4840 - Directed Reading in Vegetation and Landscapes for Wildlife Management
1-3 credits
Papers selected for the course cover a wide range of topics: landscape level effects, vegetation management to control wildlife, impacts of wildlife on vegetation, and the interactions of landscape and scale on management decisions. The goal is to expand the student’s awareness of subjects in the filed of wildlife management by selecting topics and readings that give the student new perspectives and information on this fascinating field study. Repeatable for additional credit very 12 months.
Repeatable for credit
Semester(s) Traditionally Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
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WILD 4850 - Vegetation and Habitat Management
3 credits
Applying ecological principles and concepts to manipulate the composition, structure, and productivity of wildland vegetation for a range of objectives, including the creation and maintenance of wildlife habitat, using biological, chemical, and mechanical methods, as well as fire.
Prerequisite/Restriction: PSC 3000 ; WILD 3600 .
Semester(s) Traditionally Offered: Fall
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WILD 4880 - Genetics in Conservation and Management
3 credits
Introduces principles of modern genetics, with applications, examples, and assignments related to ecology and management issues. Emphasizes genetic marker systems, gene flow, genetic drift, and adaptation.
Prerequisite/Restriction: CHEM 1110 or CHEM 1210 ; and BIOL 1610 .
Semester(s) Traditionally Offered: Fall
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WILD 4910 - Assessment and Synthesis in Natural Resource Science
3 credits
Science-based assessments of natural resources conducted through implementation of analytical methods and synthesis. Case studies used to develop concepts, strategies, and problem-solving skills. Basic GIS and remote sensing skills developed.
Prerequisite/Restriction: WILD 3600 , WILD 3610 , WILD 3800 , WILD 3810 , and WILD 4750 .
Semester(s) Traditionally Offered: Spring
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WILD 4950 - Special Topics
1-3 credits
Individual study and research upon selected problems.
Prerequisite/Restriction: Departmental permission.
Repeatable for credit.
Semester(s) Traditionally Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
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WILD 4960 - Directed Readings
1-3 credits
Individual reading research on forest, range, and wildlife science readings.
Prerequisite/Restriction: Departmental approval
Repeatable for credit
Pass/Fail only
Semester(s) Traditionally Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
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WILD 4970 - Undergraduate Research
1-3 credits
Individual or team research.
Prerequisite/Restriction: Departmental permission.
Repeatable for credit.
Semester(s) Traditionally Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
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WILD 4980 - Undergraduate Seminar
1 credit
Review of current research by graduate students and faculty. Exposes students to new developments in research and management in the fields of wildland resources. Features participation by students, faculty, and guest lecturers.
Repeatable for credit
Pass/Fail only
Semester(s) Traditionally Offered: Fall, Spring
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WILD 5220 - Community-based Conservation Partnerships
3 credits
Seeks to infuse ecology with applied conservation and management approaches. Conservation and management of natural resources requires an understanding of ecological relationships and strategies for working with diverse stakeholders. PhD-level students present their research.
Cross-listed as: WILD 7220 .
Semester(s) Traditionally Offered: Spring
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WILD 5300 - Wildlife Damage Management Principles
3 credits
Explains current legal, ethical, and biological principles for the control and/or management of problem vertebrate species.
Cross-listed as: WILD 7300 .
Semester(s) Traditionally Offered: Spring
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WILD 5350 - Wildland Soils
3 credits
Application of basic principles of soil science to wildland ecosystems. Effects of disturbance and land use on wildland soil properties. Role of soils in natural resource management.
Prerequisite/Restriction: CHEM 1110 ; PSC 3000 , and one additional upper-division Soils course, or permission of instructor.
Cross-listed as: WILD 6350 and PSC 5350 /PSC 6350 .
Semester(s) Traditionally Offered: Spring
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WILD 5420 - Forest and Shade Tree Pathology (CI)
CI Communications Intensive
3 credits
Nature, cause, and management of forest diseases.
Cross-listed as: BIOL 5420 and PSC 5420 .
Semester(s) Traditionally Offered: Spring
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WILD 5450 - Winter Ecology
2 credits
Emphasizes the effects of winter abiotic conditions on organisms and subsequent organismal adaptation to these conditions. Through lectures and field laboratories, explores energy flux, snowpack physics, organismal adaptations, and the influence of winter on wildlife management.
Semester(s) Traditionally Offered: Spring
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WILD 5460 - Avalanche and Snow Dynamics
2 credits
Fundamentals of snow and avalanche dynamics. Avalanche safety, forecasting, hazard evaluation, and control.
Semester(s) Traditionally Offered: Spring first half of semester
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WILD 5500 - Dendrology: The Study of Trees
4 credits
At a range of spatial scales from local to global, explores the natural history and adaptive strategies of the arborescent habit from its origins approximately 400 million years ago to the present.
Semester(s) Traditionally Offered: Fall
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WILD 5650 - Urban/Community Forestry
3 credits
Social, biological, and administrative aspects of managing urban/community forests, including field and classroom exercises and a management planning project.
Cross-listed as: PSC 5650 .
Semester(s) Traditionally Offered: Spring
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WILD 5700 - Forest Assessment and Management
3 credits
Detailed analysis of forest stand structure and growth. Development of silvicultural prescriptions to meet specific objectives. Analysis of costs and benefits of alternative forest management strategies. Emphasizes forest management to achieve a broad range of objectives.
Semester(s) Traditionally Offered: Spring
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WILD 5710 - Forest Vegetation Disturbance Ecology and Management
3 credits
Examines causes, effects, and management options for selected biotic and abiotic agents of disturbance in wildland ecosystems.
Semester(s) Traditionally Offered: Fall
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WILD 5750 - Applied Remote Sensing
3 credits
Covers the application of remote sensing to landcover mapping and resource monitoring at a quantitative level. Students instructed on the effects of atmosphere and surface interaction on the reflectance collected by electro-optical sensors, as well as on the proper use and interpretation of various calibration and classification algorithms.
Cross-listed as: WILD 6750 .
Semester(s) Traditionally Offered: Fall
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WILD 5860 - Poisonous Range Plants Affecting Livestock
3 credits
Poisonous plants of rangelands and their effects on grazing animals, especially livestock. Management practices to reduce or prevent poisoning.
Cross-listed as: ADVS 5860 .
Semester(s) Traditionally Offered: Spring
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WILD 6200 - Biogeochemistry of Terrestrial Ecosystems
3 credits
Inputs, outputs, and cycling patterns of major nutrients. Emphasis on mechanisms for transformations, factors influencing process rates, and the impacts of management and global change on nutrient cycles and air and water quality.
Prerequisite/Restriction: BIOL 1620 , PSC 3000 , CHEM 2300 or CHEM 2310 , or permission of instructor.
Cross-listed as: BIOL 6200 and PSC 6200 .
Semester(s) Traditionally Offered: Fall
3 |
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WILD 6240 - Graduate Internship/Co-op
1-9 credits
Graduate-level educational experience in internship/cooperative education position approved by department.
Semester(s) Traditionally Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
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WILD 6350 - Wildland Soils
3 credits
Application of basic principles of soil science to wildland ecosystems. Effects of disturbance and land use on wildland soil properties. Role of soils in natural resource management.
Prerequisite/Restriction: CHEM 1110 ; PSC 3000 , and one additional upper-division Soils course, or permission of instructor.
Cross-listed as: WILD 5350 and PSC 6350 /PSC 5350 .
Semester(s) Traditionally Offered: Spring
3 |
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WILD 6400 - Ecology of Animal Populations
4 credits
Growth, fluctuation, balance, and control of animal populations.
Semester(s) Traditionally Offered: Fall
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WILD 6500 - Biometry: Design and Analysis of Ecology Research
4 credits
Examines research design from statistical perspective, showing how data analysis is largely determined by research design and its implementation. Reviews statistical tools for analysis of ecological data in the context of design.
Prerequisite/Restriction: Graduate standing.
Semester(s) Traditionally Offered: Fall
4 |
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WILD 6510 - Topics in Spatial Ecology
1-3 credits
Seminars on analysis and interpretation of spatially explicit ecological data. Topics vary yearly, and range from spatial statistics to assessing uncertainty in environmental information systems to spatial analyses of plant and animal populations.
Prerequisite/Restriction: Graduate-level course in statistics and permission of instructor.
Repeatable for credit.
Semester(s) Traditionally Offered: Spring
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WILD 6710 - Landscape Ecology
3 credits
Focuses on landscape-scale patterns and processes, and ways of understanding ecological complexity. Explores conceptual underpinnings of larger-scale ecology. Emphasizes understanding of current peer-reviewed literature.
Cross-listed as: WILD 7710 .
Semester(s) Traditionally Offered: Spring
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WILD 6720 - Advanced Conservation Biology
3 credits
Examines cases and consequences of population and species declines, including activities such as habitat fragmentation and introduction of exotic species, as well as natural causes due to genetics and demography.
Cross-listed as: WILD 7720 .
Semester(s) Traditionally Offered: Spring
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WILD 6740 - Physical Processes in Remote Sensing
3 credits
Assures that students are well-versed in the science and technology of remote sensing. Covers various algorithms and their ability to extract biophysical information from remotely sensed images. Helps students gain firm knowledge of the capabilities and limitations of these algorithms and their use in understanding landscape level biophysical interactions.
Semester(s) Traditionally Offered: Spring
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WILD 6750 - Applied Remote Sensing
3 credits
Covers the application of remote sensing to landcover mapping and resource monitoring at a quantitative level. Students instructed on the effects of atmosphere and surface interaction on the reflectance collected by electro-optical sensors, as well as on the proper use and interpretation of various calibration and classification algorithms.
Cross-listed as: WILD 5750 .
Semester(s) Traditionally Offered: Fall
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WILD 6770 - Plant Community Ecology
3 credits
Theory and concepts of plant community ecology. Plant community composition, distribution in space, and dynamics in time. Species environmental response models, competition theory, statistical predictive models, and concepts of multivariate analysis in plant ecology.
Semester(s) Traditionally Offered: Spring
3 |
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WILD 6800 - Forest, Range, and Wildlife Sciences Departmental Seminar
1 credit
Review of current research by graduate students and faculty. Exposes students to new developments in research and management in the fields of wildland resources. Features participation by students, faculty, and guest lecturers. Graduate students are required to register for one semester of seminar credit but are encouraged to attend as many seminars as possible throughout their academic experience.
Cross-listed as: WILD 7800 .
Repeatable for credit
Pass/Fail only
Semester(s) Traditionally Offered: Fall, Spring
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WILD 6870 - Ecology Seminar
1 credit
The Ecology Center schedules regular seminars throughout the school year with ecological scientists from other institutions participating. Ecology majors are required to attend a minimum of 10 such lectures. Students should register for fall semester, but attend through spring semester.
Cross-listed as: BIOL 6870 and ENVS 6870 and PSC 6870 and WATS 6870 .
Repeatable for credit.
Pass/Fail only.
Semester(s) Traditionally Offered: Fall, Spring
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WILD 6900 - Graduate Special Topics
1-6 credits
Offers credit for special assignments, reading, and seminars beyond regularly scheduled courses.
Repeatable for credit.
Semester(s) Traditionally Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
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WILD 6910 - Directed Study
1-6 credits
Offers credit for special assignments, reading, and seminars beyond regularly scheduled courses.
Repeatable for credit.
Semester(s) Traditionally Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
1-6 |
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WILD 6960 - Graduate General Ecology
4 credits
General concepts, history, and issues in all major areas of the science of ecology including: environmental biophysics; and physiological, behavioral, evolutionary, community, ecosystem, and applied ecology in both terrestrial and aquatic environments.
Cross-listed as: BIOL 6960 and ENVS 6960 and PSC 6960 and WATS 6960 .
Semester(s) Traditionally Offered: Fall
4 |
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WILD 6970 - Thesis Research
1-12 credits
Original research for MS degree.
Repeatable for credit
Pass/Fail only
Semester(s) Traditionally Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
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WILD 6990 - Continuing Graduate Advisement
1-9 credits
Repeatable for credit.
Pass/Fail only.
Semester(s) Traditionally Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
1-9 |
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WILD 7000 - Theory and Applications of Rangeland Ecosystem Management
3 credits
Application of range management principles, new theory, and public policy to on the-ground decision-making in public and private lands. Field trips required.
Semester(s) Traditionally Offered: Fall
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WILD 7030 - Plant-Herbivore Interactions
3 credits
Emphasizes principles of self-organization as applied to plant (tolerance and avoidance of herbivory) and herbivore (food and habitat selection) behavior. Stresses importance of history and ongoing interactions with the environment in understanding the dynamics of plant-herbivore interactions.
Semester(s) Traditionally Offered: Summer
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WILD 7200 - Plant Physiological Ecology
3 credits
Plant response to environmental factors; includes environmental biophysics, physical and physiological factors influencing productivity, water use, resistance to stress, reproduction, establishment of plants, and competition with neighboring plants.
Semester(s) Traditionally Offered: Fall
3 |
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WILD 7220 - Community-based Conservation Partnerships
3 credits
Seeks to infuse ecology with applied conservation and management approaches. Conservation and management of natural resources requires an understanding of ecological relationships and strategies for working with diverse stakeholders. PhD-level students present their research.
Cross-listed as: WILD 5220 .
Semester(s) Traditionally Offered: Spring
3 |
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WILD 7300 - Wildlife Damage Management Principles
3 credits
Explains current legal, ethical, and biological principles for the control and/or management of problem vertebrate species.
Cross-listed as: WILD 5300 .
Semester(s) Traditionally Offered: Spring
3 |
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WILD 7400 - Plant Population Ecology
3 credits
Dynamics of plant populations as influenced by interactions with their abiotic and, especially, biotic environments. Topics include dormancy and germination strategies, intra- and interspecific competition, facilitation, disturbance, herbivory, pathogenic and mutualistic fungi, pollination, seed dispersal, and vegetative reproduction.
Semester(s) Traditionally Offered: Fall
3 |
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WILD 7710 - Landscape Ecology
3 credits
Focuses on landscape-scale patterns and processes, and ways of understanding ecological complexity. Explores conceptual underpinnings of larger-scale ecology. Emphasizes understanding of current peer-reviewed literature.
Cross-listed as: WILD 6710 .
Semester(s) Traditionally Offered: Spring
3 |
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WILD 7720 - Advanced Conservation Biology
3 credits
Examines cases and consequences of population and species declines, including activities such as habitat fragmentation and introduction of exotic species, as well as natural causes due to genetics and demography.
Cross-listed as: WILD 6720 .
Semester(s) Traditionally Offered: Spring
3 |
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WILD 7800 - Forest, Range, and Wildlife Sciences Departmental Seminar
1 credit
Review of current research by graduate students and faculty. Exposes students to new developments in research and management in the fields of wildland resources. Features participation by students, faculty, and guest lecturers. Graduate students are required to register for one semester of seminar credit but are encouraged to attend as many seminars as possible throughout their academic experience.
Cross-listed as: WILD 6800
Repeatable for credit
Pass/Fail only
Semester(s) Traditionally Offered: Fall, Spring
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WILD 7900 - Graduate Special Topics
1-6 credits
Offers credit for special assignments, reading, and seminars beyond regularly scheduled courses.
Repeatable for credit.
Semester(s) Traditionally Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
1-6 |
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WILD 7910 - Directed Study
1-6 credits
Offers credit for special assignments, reading, and seminars beyond regularly scheduled courses.
Repeatable for credit.
Semester(s) Traditionally Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
1-6 |
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WILD 7970 - Dissertation Research
1-12 credits
Original research and study for PhD degree.
Repeatable for credit.
Pass/Fail only.
Semester(s) Traditionally Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
1-12 |
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WILD 7990 - Continuing Graduate Advisement
1-9 credits
Repeatable for credit.
Pass/Fail only.
Semester(s) Traditionally Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
1-9 |
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