The Vegetation of Wisconsin
The Vegetation of Wisconsin covers the ecology of Wisconsin plant communities, including floristic composition, community structure, and relationships to history, climate, soil, geology, and human perturbation.
Summary
Recent recorded grades — Fall 2022: 3.50 GPA, 62.5% A/AB (n=24 letter grades); Fall 2023: 3.48 GPA, 64.0% A/AB (n=25 letter grades); Fall 2024: 3.41 GPA, 55.6% A/AB (n=27 letter grades).
What you’ll be able to do
Recognize how ecologists learn about the composition, structure, dynamics, and diversity of Wisconsin plant communities and ecosystems.
Summarize how the patterns in plant communities relate to spatial variation in climate, soils, glacial history, and recent disturbance regimes.
Determine the biological properties of species in different communities and how those properties set their distributions along environmental gradients.
Identify the ongoing and likely future human impacts on Wisconsin's environment and vegetation.
Articulate how ecologists conceptualize problems, form hypotheses, test predictions, and relate such predictions to issues of land management and public policy.
Apply field and/or data science methods to analyze vegetation patterns, community assembly dynamics, and responses to environmental change.
Source: UW Guide
Grade history
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Prerequisites
Course mapZOOLOGY/BIOLOGY/BOTANY 151,BOTANY/BIOLOGY 130,ZOOLOGY/BIOLOGY 101,BIOCORE 381, or graduate/professional standing
- BIOLOGY/BOTANY/ZOOLOGY 151
- BIOLOGY/BOTANY 130
- BIOLOGY/ZOOLOGY 101
- BIOCORE 381
- graduate/professional standing
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- Any of
- BIOLOGY/BOTANY/ZOOLOGY 151
- BIOLOGY/BOTANY 130
- BIOLOGY/ZOOLOGY 101
- BIOCORE 381
- graduate/professional standing
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the class
Recent recorded grades — Fall 2022: 3.50 GPA, 62.5% A/AB (n=24 letter grades); Fall 2023: 3.48 GPA, 64.0% A/AB (n=25 letter grades); Fall 2024: 3.41 GPA, 55.6% A/AB (n=27 letter grades).
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Topics
- Ecology of Wisconsin plant communities
- Floristic composition and community structure
- Relationships to history, climate, soil, and geology
- Response to human perturbation
Skills
- Recognizing ecological composition, structure, dynamics, and diversity in Wisconsin plant communities.
- Summarizing relationships between plant community patterns and spatial variation in climate, soils, glacial history, and disturbance.
- Determining biological properties of species and their role in setting distributions along environmental gradients.
- Identifying ongoing and likely future human impacts on Wisconsin's environment and vegetation.
- Articulating how ecologists conceptualize problems, form hypotheses, test predictions, and relate them to land management and public policy.
- Applying field and data science methods to analyze vegetation patterns, community assembly dynamics, and responses to environmental change.
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