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The purpose of this course is to introduce you to the principles of conducting sound scientific research in fish, wildlife, and conservation biology. Major concepts that we will cover include the philosophy and history of science, application of the scientific method in fish, wildlife, and conservation biology research (from asking good questions to designing experiments to address those questions), and data collection & analysis.
FW 260 (Principles of Wildlife Management); LAND 220/LIFE 220 (Fundamentals of Ecology (GT-SC2)) or LIFE 320 (Ecology); NR 220 (Natural Resource Ecology and Measurements); MATH 155 (Calculus for Biological Scientists I) or MATH 160 (Calculus for Physical Scientists I (GT-MA1)); STAT 301 (Introduction to Statistical Methods) or STAT 307 (Introduction to Biostatistics)
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On texts, authors Gotelli & Ellison are also knows as "G&E on the schedule.
Discussion papers, lab documents, and other readings: are provided as PDFs on our Canvas page