2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog

EESC 461 Botany Field Methods

This course will use concepts from EESC 360 and train students in different monitoring methods used in vegetation studies such as transects, quadrats, enclosure plots, etc. Quantitative features of vegetation and measurement of these characteristics will be used to define plant communities and allow for ecological comparisons. Field sites can include restored prairie, public lands and subarctic tundra. Course may be repeated.

Credits

2

Prerequisite

Major: Admission to program, Non-Major: Instructor permission

Offered

Summer