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.