Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:

1. Classify the relationships between farm management, biodiversity, ecosystem services, and crop production.
2. Identify key biodiversity indicators and complete basic monitoring methods, including using community-science based initiatives.
3. Recognize sources of agroecosystem biodiversity, including crop plants, non-crop plants, insects (pests, pollinators and beneficial insects), soil invertebrates, and vertebrates (mammals, reptiles, amphibians, and birds).
4. Develop competency in using techniques to measure key abiotic factors in the field, including site microclimatic variables: air and soil temperature, relative humidity, solar and ultraviolet radiation.
5. Develop competency in using techniques to quantify landscape/habitat diversity across the farm and surrounding area.
6. Evaluate the effects of farm management practices on biodiversity metrics using statistical analysis.