Biological Responses to Climate Change

BIOLOGY 263

Lecture/discussion course on how organisms, populations, and biological communities are expected to respond to climate change. Topics include evidence for effects of climate change on organisms, how to experimentally test for potential effects of climate change, ecological and evolutionary mechanisms that organisms have—or do not have—that enable them to respond to climate change, community responses to climate change. Recommended prerequisite: Biology 202L or 203L.
Curriculum Codes
  • W
  • NS
Typically Offered
Occasionally