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Apr 20, 2024
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PBIO 3220 - Tropical Plant Ecology
Tropical rain forest studies around the world, including basic plant ecology, biogeography, growth forms and life histories, plant/animal interactions, human impacts, conservation and management.
Requisites: BIOS 3750 or GEOG 3160 or PBIO 2090
Credit Hours: 3
OHIO BRICKS Capstone: Capstone or Culminating Experience
General Education Code (students who entered prior to Fall 2021-22): 3
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture
Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
Learning Outcomes: - Students will be able to locate and interpret primary sources in an extended term paper. This will addresses the “synthesis” Gen Ed goal.
- Students will be able to discuss common management and conservation methods applied in tropical forest systems. This allows students to participate effectively (i.e. with scientific understanding) in their society (Gen Ed goal).
- Students will be able to describe historical human interactions in tropical forest ecosystems. This aspect of the course covers resource use and forest interactions in many cultures around the world, meeting the “multicultural” Gen Ed goal.
- Students will be able to describe tropical plant families and their distributions.
- Students will be able to describe disturbance dynamics in tropical forest systems.
- Students will be able to discuss tropical species’ growth forms as adaptations to the the environment.
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