Course Description

431 Contemporary Topics: Ecology and Evolution of Plant-Human Interactions

Half-unit course for one semester. Ecological and evolutionary contexts of interactions between plants and humans. Potential topics include agricultural ecology, grazing, plant-resource extraction, crop evolution and their diseases/pests, plant breeding, transgenic species, and invasive plants.

Although this course will not focus on the field of ethnobotany per se, we may discuss the overlap between botanical research and topics traditionally considered to fall within ethnobotany.

Meeting time:

be Wednesday, 8:10 - 10 PM in B200A.

Prerequisites:

Bio 101/102; two upper-level lecture-laboratory courses, and Junior or Senior class standing. Vascular Plant Diversity (Bio 332), Plant Physiology (Bio 322), and/or Population Biology (BIO 366) will be helpful.

Course staff:

The course is taught by Keith Karoly (Office - B240; phone - x7846; office hours by appointment; email [kkaroly at reed.edu])