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Maine Cooperative Fish & Wildlife Research Unit |
Graduate Courses
WLE 520 Natural Resources Policy Resource issued for managers of public and private lands and integration of wildlife management with land and resource use. Alternate years. WLE 540 Advanced Conservation Biology A problem-solving approach to maintaining biological diversity through population and ecosystem management. WLE 555 Landscape Ecology and Conservation Principles and methods in landscape ecology and their application to description and analysis of human-modified environments and natural resource management. WLE 565 Carnivore Ecology and Management Management authority and conservation initiatives, evolution and taxonomy, habitat selection, spatial requirements, genetic issues, social organizations, predator-prey relationships, population assessment and performance and socio-political issues. Independent research project required for 3 credits. WLE 580 Advanced Population Dynamics Dynamics of animal populations as reflected in differential and difference equations including the analysis of density dependence and chaos, and the demographic and environmental conditions leading to these dynamics. WLE 650 Graduate Seminar in Wildlife Science Waterbird & Wetland Ecology WLE 697 Special Problems in Wildlife Ecology WLE 699 Graduate Thesis
Undergraduate Wildlife Ecology Courses that May be Taken for Graduate Credit WLE 410 Wildlife Population Dynamics and Conservation Characteristics of wildlife populations, including principles of population dynamics and population interactions, with application in wildlife population conservation. WLE 450 Wildlife life-Habitat Relationships A study of the interrelationships among wildlife species and their habitats stressing application to resource planning and management. WLE 455 Wildlife-Habitat Evaluation Focuses on field, analytical and laboratory techniques for evaluating habitat for wildlife. Students will be introduced to the applied approaches and techniques for evaluating habits. Material is presented via lectures, reading , fieldwork and laboratory experience. WLE 470 Wildlife Policy and Administration Development and state and federal wildlife policy in the United States. Procedures for establishing and implementing policy and current wildlife policy issues. |