This course explores the significance of life on Earth, past and present. Topics include ecological revolutions, mass extinctions, roles of life in the mediation of physical and chemical processes in the lithosphere, hydrosphere and atmosphere, controls on global biodiversity patterns, and case histories of selected invertebrate and vertebrate groups. Antirequisite(s): Prerequisite(s): Corequisite(s): Earth Sciences 2200A/B or permission of the Department. Pre-or Corequisite(s): Extra Information: 2 lecture hours, 2 laboratory hours, 0.5 course. back to top
