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Apr 30, 2024
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BIO 103 FIELD STUDIES: MOUNTAIN ECOSYSTEMS1 Unit - 0.5 hour lecture, 1.5 hours lab
Transfers: CSU
Limitation: Students must be able to hike, camp (tents, sleeping bags, limited showers, camp cooking) and traverse steep and/or rocky trails.
Recommended Preparation: An introductory college-level biology course or BIO 30 and WR 1
This field course introduces students to interrelationships among plant/animal communities and physical environments that characterize mountain habitats. Topics will include natural history, ecology and diversity of mountain flora and fauna, and human impacts to mountain ecosystems. Introductory lectures complement direct field observations and experiments, data collection and analysis. The course is taught primarily in the field. It is intended for both science majors and non-majors. Students are limited to taking four field study courses in life sciences (BIO 101 , BIO 102 , BIO 103, BIO 104 , BIO 105 , or BIO 109 ) for a maximum of 5 units. NR
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