Castle Lake Limnological Research Station
in the Shasta-Trinity National Forest, Northern California, USA Contents
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CA - Mount Shasta
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Aquatic Foodwebs
Academic Quarter: Fall 2006
CRN: 44225
Course: GEO298
Location: Wickson 2120J
Meeting Time: Tuesdays 4:30 to 6:00 pm
Units:2
Description
This course is designed as a review and discussion of trends in aquatic food-web research with an emphasis on a landscape level perspective on food-web structure and trophic dynamics. Specific areas of focus will include ecosystem connectivity, nutrient cycling and vectors, and aqua-terrestrial food-web subsidies. The goal of the course will be to design a monitoring approach for lake food-webs that incorporates these ideas and a watershed scale perspective on lake trophic dynamics. Attention will also be given to probable impacts of climatic change associated with global warming on aquatic-food webs.
Course requirements:
- Attendance
- Presentation of one meeting’s topic and accompanying reading, and facilitation of a discussion based on that presentation
- Participation in a field trip to the Castle Lake research station during which students and professors from UC Davis and UNR will collaborate on the design of a lake food-web research and monitoring program for Castle Lake.
