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• WILD 6700: Restoration Ecology

  4.00 Credits

  
  Provides an understanding of ecological restoration, how to determine restoration goals, how to establish targets, and how to determine what are good measures of success. Teaches restoration implementation, best practices for restoration monitoring, and how to develop and sustain community support for restoration.
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• WILD 6710: Landscape Ecology

  3.00 Credits

  
  The course focuses on landscape-scale patterns and processes, and ways of understanding ecological complexity. It explores underpinnings of larger-scale ecology and emphasizes gaining hands-on experience applying landscape ecology concepts with data in R.
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• WILD 6720: Advanced Conservation Biology

  3.00 Credits

  
  Examines cases and consequences of population and species declines, including activities such as habitat fragmentation and introduction of exotic species, as well as natural causes due to genetics and demography.
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• WILD 6730: Forest Community Ecology

  4.00 Credits

  
  Community ecology of forest ecosystems. Quantitative methods of community description. Analytic treatment of scientific literature and an emphasis on critical scientific writing. Role of limiting factors, competition, and disturbance in determining community composition, structure, and dynamics.
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• WILD 6750: Applied Remote Sensing

  3.00 Credits

  
  Covers the application of remote sensing to landcover mapping and resource monitoring at a quantitative level. Students instructed on the effects of atmosphere and surface interaction on the reflectance collected by electro-optical sensors, as well as on the proper use and interpretation of various calibration and classification algorithms.
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• WILD 6770: Community Ecology

  3.00 Credits

  
  Students learn theory and concepts of plant community ecology. They explore plant community composition, distribution in space, and dynamics in time. Species environmental response models, competition theory, statistical predictive models, and concepts of multivariate analysis in plant ecology are discussed.
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• WILD 6800: Wildland Resources Departmental Seminar

  1.00 Credits

  
  Review of current research by graduate students and faculty. Exposes students to new developments in research and management in the fields of wildland resources. Features participation by students, faculty, and guest lecturers. Graduate students are required to register for one semester of seminar credit but are encouraged to attend as many seminars as possible throughout their academic experience.
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• WILD 6870: Ecology Seminar

  1.00 Credits

  
  The Ecology Center schedules seminars with ecological scientists from participating institutions. Ecology majors are required to attend or view a minimum of 10 such lectures. Ecologically focused seminars offered by other departments and colleges may also be eligible for credit.
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• WILD 6880: Space-Use Ecology

  1.00 - 2.00 Credits

  
  This course provides graduate students with a basic understanding of hypotheses-driven analyses of organismal positional data (telemetry, surveys, traps, cameras, etc.) in an ecological context. The course also increases capacity for analysis implementation.
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• WILD 6900: Graduate Special Topics

  1.00 - 6.00 Credits

  
  Offers credit for special assignments, reading, and seminars beyond regularly scheduled courses.
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