Description: Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Requisites: course 150 or Life Sciences 170, Life Sciences 7A, 7B, 7C. Conservation genetics is interdisciplinary field that integrates genetic methods and concepts from population genetics, evolutionary biology, molecular ecology, and systematics to understand how to conserve and manage populations and species of natural organisms, and understand genetic processes underlying why some go extinct. Case studies of plants and animals cover range of topics including habitat loss, population size, and inbreeding depression; landscape change and genetic connectivity of populations; climate change and local adaptation; management of wild and natural populations; and invasive species. Concurrently scheduled with course C146. S/U or letter grading.

Units: 4.0