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    This 3 credit course called Watershed Ecology is offered in the spring of even numbered years for upper level students in ecology, hydrology, and aquatic sciences. The course explores the movement of water through environments from rainfall to its return to the oceans while focusing on ecosystem effects. Key topics include the hydrologic cycle, lotic and lentic systems, the influence of water on plant and animal communities, and how human activity impacts watershed structure and function.

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    This 3 credit course called Watershed Ecology is offered in the spring of even numbered years for upper level students in ecology, hydrology, and aquatic sciences. The course explores the movement of water through environments from rainfall to its return to the oceans while focusing on ecosystem effects. Key topics include the hydrologic cycle, lotic and lentic systems, the influence of water on plant and animal communities, and how human activity impacts watershed structure and function.

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    WatershedEcology 2

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    Dina Kharida
    This 3 credit course called Watershed Ecology is offered in the spring of even numbered years for upper level students in ecology, hydrology, and aquatic sciences. The course explores the movement of water through environments from rainfall to its return to the oceans while focusing on ecosystem effects. Key topics include the hydrologic cycle, lotic and lentic systems, the influence of water on plant and animal communities, and how human activity impacts watershed structure and function.

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    WATERSHEDECOLOGY

    Departments:BiologicalSciences&Geosciences
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    CourseNumber:BIO/GSC542/642CreditHours:3
    N b BIO/GSC542/642C ditHo
    3
    Spring,evennumberedyears
    Firsttaughtin1986,WatershedEcologyisdesignedasa
    capstonecourseforstudentsinecology,hydrology,and
    g
    g
    theaquaticsciences.Wateristhenextoil.Theworldis
    runningpainfullyshortoffreshwater,andthepolitical
    andenvironmentalconsequenceswillbesevere.
    Areasemphasizedincludethehydrologiccycleanditsinfluenceongroundwater,
    lotic andlenticsystems;theeffectofwateronplantandanimalcommunities;and
    lotic,andlenticsystems;theeffectofwateronplantandanimalcommunities;and
    theinfluenceofhumanactivityonwatershedstructureandfunction.
    Thecourseexploresthebroaderaspectsofwatermovementthroughenvironments
    fromrainfalltoitsreturntotheoceansfocusingonecosystemeffects.Most
    coursesinhydrologyandaquaticsystemsconsideronephaseofthehydrologiccycle
    orwaterasitexistsonlyinthespecificsystem.Themechanismsofhowwater
    arrivesordepartsfromthesystemandtheinfluencethismovementmayhaveon
    biophysicalcomponentsofthesystemareoftenomittedorcoveredverybriefly.
    Thecoursecoversindetailthehydrologiccycle,itsrelationshiptoplantandanimal
    communities,andhowhumanactivitiesalterthehydrologiccycleandthustheplant
    andanimalcommunities.Thiscourseisofferedasacompanioncoursetohydrology,
    limnology,andstreamecology.Thecourseisdesignedforupperlevelstudentsin
    bothGeosciencesandBiologicalSciences.

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