EE BIOL 168Global Change Ecology
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology · 4 units · Undergraduate upper division (100-199)
Exploration of physical climate system and its variability, carbon cycle and related biogeochemistry and ecosystem processes, land-use change, urbanization, and interactions among ecosystems, climate, biogeochemistry, and impact of global change on societally relevant issues and concerns. Global change ecology is field at interface between ecological systems and all aspects of environmental change that affects substantial part of globe. Focus on use of observations and models, consideration of multiple scales of change (temporal and spatial), interaction of human behaviors and choices with natural systems, and linkages across different aspects of global change science.
Letter grading.
When it runs
Not on the schedule for any of Fall 2025 through Spring 2027. UCLA publishes only that window, so this does not mean the course is gone — check the official listing.
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What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.
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