BIO 63 - FIELD STUDIES: MOUNTAIN ECOSYSTEMS

    Recent Professors
    D. Fretz, J. Wright
    Recent Semesters
    Fall 2025, Fall 2024, Fall 2023
    Class Size
    20 students
    Credits
    1
    Fall 2025 Sections
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    Transfers To
    CSU
    Description
    This field course introduces students to interrelationships among plant/animal communities and physical environments that characterize mountain habitats. Topics will include natural history, ecology and diversity of mountain flora and fauna, and human impacts to mountain ecosystems. Introductory lectures complement direct field observations and experiments, data collection and analysis. The course is taught primarily in the field. It is intended for both science majors and non-majors. Students are limited to taking four field study courses in life sciences (BIO 101, 102, 103, 104, 105, or 109) for a maximum of 5 units.