Course Description

Earth Sciences 261a/b Biospheric Interactions Through Time

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.

Prerequisites: Earth Sciences 020 or equivalent; or Biology 022 or equivalent; or permission of the Department.

2 lecture hours, 2 laboratory hours, half course.

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