Class Id: 8873
Days: MWF
Start Time: 10:00 AM
End Time: 10:50 AM
Building: GUYOT
Room: 220
Course Id: 3949
Departments and Numbers: GEO 430
Area:
Title: Climate and the Terrestrial Biosphere
Description: Earth's climate is inextricably intertwined with the terrestrial biosphere. In this course, we will explore the key mechanisms that link climate (e.g., cloudiness, rainfall, and temperature) with the terrestrial biosphere (e.g., ecosystem composition, structure, and functioning), and how these mechanisms are altered by humans. We will review basic aspects of climate, surface energy balances, and terrestrial plant ecology, and then investigate feedbacks and forcings arising from biophysical properties of the land surface, biogeographical properties of ecosystems, deforestation, fires, increases in atmospheric CO2, and other factors.
Prerequisites: GEO 202 or equivalent
Professors: David M. Medvigy
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