Recent recorded grades — Spring 2024: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=12 letter grades); Spring 2025: 3.93 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=15 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.95 GPA, 95.0% A/AB (n=20 letter grades).
Spring 2027
Disturbance Ecology Lab (i): Herbivores and Fire
Hands-on lab course exploring natural and anthropogenic disturbances in forest ecosystems, emphasizing herbivores, fire, and management strategies.
offering recorded1 credits
Recorded instructors · Spring 2027 George Meindl4.0/5
Summary
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Recent recorded grades — Spring 2024: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=12 letter grades); Spring 2025: 3.93 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=15 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.95 GPA, 95.0% A/AB (n=20 letter grades).
What you’ll be able to do
Discuss the importance of disturbance for ecosystem processes (e.g., nutrient cycling, biodiversity, soil development, etc.)
Describe the effect of herbivores and fire on local forest habitats.
Identify native and non-native members of local forest ecosystems and explain how they respond to herbivory and fire.
Explain how population and community dynamics of plants are influenced by disturbance, stress, and species interactions.
Formulate novel hypotheses related to declining forest understory biodiversity, design experimental protocols to falsify those hypotheses, and communicate research proposals in oral and written forms to a scientific audience.
Apply basic ecological laboratory and field techniques to understanding ecological principles.
Source: UW Guide
Grade history
↗ average GPA
4747 letter grades
A93.6%93.6%
AB4.3%4.3%
B2.1%2.1%
BC0.0%0.0%
C0.0%0.0%
D0.0%0.0%
F0.0%0.0%
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Prerequisites
Course mapBOTANY/BIOLOGY 130,ZOOLOGY/BIOLOGY/BOTANY 151,BIOCORE 381, or graduate/professional standing
- BIOLOGY/BOTANY 130
- BIOLOGY/BOTANY/ZOOLOGY 151
- BIOCORE 381
- graduate/professional standing
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- Any of
- BIOLOGY/BOTANY 130
- BIOLOGY/BOTANY/ZOOLOGY 151
- BIOCORE 381
- graduate/professional standing
Professors
Spring 2027Historical instructors & teaching patterns
GEORGE MEINDL is recorded teaching in Spring 2024, Spring 2025, Spring 2026. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.
Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.
Calendar & sections
Spring 2027Schedule loads here as you scroll.
| Section | Mode | Enrolled / capacity | Waitlist |
|---|---|---|---|
| LAB 001 | Classroom Instruction | 0 / 20 | 0 |
Times are Central. Select a meeting for details; export includes recorded dates for the selected sections. Enrollment reflects scan time.
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Student experience
the class
Recent recorded grades — Spring 2024: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=12 letter grades); Spring 2025: 3.93 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=15 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.95 GPA, 95.0% A/AB (n=20 letter grades).
difficulty & workload
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Topics
- Natural and anthropogenic disturbances in forest ecosystems
- Role of herbivores and fire and associated management strategies
- Ecological laboratory and field techniques for understanding environmental changes and ecosystem structure
- Importance of disturbance for ecosystem processes like nutrient cycling, biodiversity, and soil development
- Hypothesis formulation and experimental design regarding declining forest understory biodiversity
Skills
- Examine the role of herbivores and fire in forest ecosystems and their effects on local habitats.
- Apply basic ecological laboratory and field techniques to understand disturbances and ecosystem structure.
- Identify native and non-native forest species and explain their responses to herbivory and fire.
- Explain how plant population and community dynamics are influenced by disturbance, stress, and interactions.
- Formulate hypotheses on understory biodiversity decline, design experimental protocols, and communicate proposals orally and in writing.
Grades
Latest available · Spring 2026— not enough history to project Spring 2027.
average GPA
A / AB grades
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Grade distribution · % of letter grades
A95.0%95.0%
AB0.0%0.0%
B5.0%5.0%
BC0.0%0.0%
C0.0%0.0%
D0.0%0.0%
F0.0%0.0%
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Through Spring 2026
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Disturbance Ecology Lab (I): Herbivores and Fire
Recorded 2026-10-14Raw records
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