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Prerequisites: Enrollment limited to 12 students. Permission of the instructor required.

This class looks at the response of wildlife (birds and plants) to climate change and land-use issues from the end of the last glaciation to the present. We visit wildlife refuges along a rural-suburban-urban gradient in order to observe and measure the role refuges play in conservation.  Case study topics are:  (1) land-use change over time:  a paleoenvironmental perspective, (2) environmental transformations:  impact of exotic and invasive plants and birds on local environments and (3) migration of Neotropical songbirds between their wintering and breeding grounds:  land-use, crisis and conservation.  Format:  lecture, student presentations, field trips and data collection/analysis.