Forest Ecosystems

Description from DukeHub

Emphasis on the processes by which forests circulate, transform, and accumulate energy and materials through interactions of biologic organisms and the forest environment. Ecosystem productivity and cycling of carbon, water, and nutrients provide the basis for lecture and laboratory.

Skills

• lab workAI review: "provide the basis for lecture and laboratory"

AI-resilient: 1 of 5 1/5

• ✓Yes: Physical, lab or field work · "laboratory"
• No: Live work with people
• No: Judgment someone is accountable for
• No: A craft you practice with your hands or body
• No: Small, in-person format

The checks lean on Microsoft Research, Working with AI (2025), which found generative AI applies least to physical work and hands-on work with people. A signal, not a promise. How the score works

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