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Feb 10, 2025
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BIOS 4800 - Wildlife Responses to Climate Change
This course focuses on past, present, and future responses of wildlife to climate change (=global change ecology). In this course, we learn about global-scale climate changes, the factors that cause them and the consequences of these changes for wildlife populations and natural communities. We discuss how species are responding to climate change, emphasizing ecology, evolution, physiology and behavior. We also explore the various ways of studying the impacts of climate change on biodiversity and strategies to mitigate these impacts. There is a strong emphasis on understanding the process of gaining reliable knowledge in climate change ecology (and science in general) through reading and critical evaluation of the primary literature. By the end of this course, your communication skills, creativity, and analytical abilities are reinforced and improved.
Requisites: (C- or better in BIOS 3750) or (C- or better in BIOS 3760) or (C- or better in BIOS 2750).
Credit Hours: 3
OHIO BRICKS: Capstone: Capstone or Culminating Experience
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 critically state, describe, and consider key drivers of climate change and the effects of climate change on wildlife.
- Students will be able to use information from primary and secondary scientific literature to develop a comprehensive analysis or synthesis of how wild species responded and are predicted to respond to climate change in the future.
- Students will be able to systematically and methodically analyze assumptions and carefully evaluate the relevance of contexts when presenting a position on climate change effects on wildlife.
- Students will be able to state their own position on climate change effects that is thoughtful, recognizes complexities, and acknowledges limitations.
- Students will be able to state conclusions and related outcomes related to climate change effects on wildlife logically and in a priority order.
- Students will be able to connect relevant experiences and academic knowledge related to climate change and wildlife.
- Students will be able to see and make connections across disciplines (e.g., climate science, ecology, evolution, conservation biology) and perspectives.
- Students will be able to adapt and apply skills, abilities, theories, or methodologies gained in one situation to a new situation.
- Students will be able to complete an assignment using a format, language, or visual representation in ways that enhance meaning.
- Students will be able to demonstrate a developing sense of self as a learner and build on prior experience to respond to new and challenging contexts.
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