Wikipedia:USEP/Courses/Tropical Ecology (Bruna/Blake)

Course information

 * University: University of Florida
 * Course title: Tropical Ecology and Conservation
 * Professor name: Emilio Bruna & John Blake
 * Professor's Wikipedia username:  Embruna
 * Course start date: August 2012
 * Assignment due date: November 29, 2012

Course description
This course has three principal objectives: (1) To gain an understanding of the evolutionary and ecological factors that shape patterns of tropical diversity. (2) To learn some of the ways in which humans utilize tropical wildlife. (3) To understand the threats faced by tropical ecosystems and explore alternatives for their conservation. Although examples will be drawn from a variety of tropical ecosystems, the course will focus primarily on the Neotropics.

Wikipedia assignment
Students will expand existing articles and create new ones related to topics in tropical ecology and conservation. Each entry must be 1200-1500 words. Current entries include: elevational diversity gradient gap dynamics intermediate disturbance hypothesis varzea igapo white-lipped peccary shade-grown coffee geophagy (current entry needs much better description of the behavior from animal perspective) La Selva Biological Station

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 * Ezambetti
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 * Jrichmond92
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