Are you looking for a course that will give you an overview of the impact humans are having on the earth's ecosystems? Check out this Oregon State University Winter 2008 course, BI 301 Human Impacts on Ecosystems. Dr Patricia Muir makes available extensive resources, good solid information, on the course website. She describes the course, "... we will examine selected human impacts on ecosystems in depth, including management of agricultural and forest resources, altered air quality, and changes in global climate. The causes, approaches to investigating, and potential solutions for each issue will be discussed from scientific and social perspectives. For each environmental problem, we examine how human activities are transmitted through linkages among air, land, water, and the biota."
In addition to lecture notes, there are also study guides and supplementary readings for each unit of the course:
- Human population
- Agricultural issues
- Air quality issues
- Global climate change
- Stratospheric ozone depletion
- Biodiversity and forestry issues
The website is still being updated for fall, but it appears all links are live.
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