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Course Description:
This course will pursue two main goals: (1) to improve your competence in the study of terrestrial wildlife in field settings; and (2) to provide you experience in the field research process, from question development to result presentation -- and all intermediate steps. The course will focus on butterflies, amphibians, birds, and mammals. The course is organized as a series of field exercises, preceded or followed by "classroom" sessions that provide context for the fieldwork and that introduce research design and data analysis. Upon successfully completing the course, you should be able to do the following: (1) determine the distribution, abundance, and habitat use of diverse terrestrial wildlife, (2) sample habitat characteristics relevant to selected wildlife, and (3) design and conduct field research requiring (1) or (2).