NTRES 4201

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NTRES 4201
Forest Ecology Laboratory

Course information provided by the Courses of Study 2016-2017.

Field trips designed to familiarize students with the nature of regional forests and to provide experience with approaches to quantifying forest composition and its relation to environmental factors. Optional weekend field trips to Adirondacks and to the White Mountains, N.H. Includes group research projects in local forests.

When Offered Fall.

Fees Course fee: optional weekend field trips, approx. $30.
Prerequisites/Corequisites Corequisite: NTRES 4200.

Distribution Category (OPHLS-AG)

Outcomes
  • Learn to identify forest trees of the Northeast.
  • Better understand approaches for quantifying forest composition and structure and for summarizing and analyzing data.
  • Learn how to measure key environmental factors and plant physiological processes in forests.
  • Learn to "read" the forested landscape and to infer the processes and patterns of forest tree distributions.
  • Gain experience with the process of field scientific research including proposal development, data collection and analysis and preparation of scientific manuscript.

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1 Credit Graded

  •  1135 NTRES 4201   FLD 801

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    • M

    • Fahey, T

  • Co-requisite: NTRES 4200.