Conservation biology is the applied science of maintaining the earth's biological diversity. The main focus of this course is biological, but it is interdisciplinary and reaches into ethics, economics, and sociology. The explicit goal of this discipline is to conserve biodiversity at all levels of organization from genetics to populations, species, communities and ecosystems. We will explore both the theoretical and applied aspects of conversation at the local, national and international scales. Prerequisite: BIO 2020 Ecology
- Teacher: Olga Milenkaya