BIOL 302
Communities and Ecosystems Fall 2015
Division III Quantitative/Formal Reasoning
Cross-listed ENVI 312
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An advanced ecology course that examines how species interact with each other and their environment with a focus on conservation implications. This course emphasizes phenomena that emerge in complex ecological systems, building on the fundamental concepts of population biology, community ecology, and ecosystem science. This foundation will be used to understand specific topics relevant to conservation including the functional significance of diversity for ecosystem stability and processes. Lectures and labs will explore how to characterize the emergent properties of communities and ecosystems, and how theoretical, comparative, and experimental approaches are used to understand their structure and function. The lab component of this course will emphasize hypothesis-oriented field experiments but will also include some laboratory microcosm experiments. The laboratory component of the course will culminate with a self-designed independent or group project.
The Class: Format: lecture/laboratory, six hours a week
Limit: 28
Expected: 24
Class#: 1051
Grading: yes pass/fail option, yes fifth course option
Requirements/Evaluation: evaluation will be based on lab reports, a midterm exam, a term project presentation, and a final project paper
Prerequisites: BIOL/ENVI 203 or 220
Enrollment Preferences: Biology majors and Environmental Studies majors and concentrators
Unit Notes: satisfies the distribution requirement in the Biology major
Distributions: Division III Quantitative/Formal Reasoning
Notes: This course is cross-listed and the prefixes carry the following divisional credit:
BIOL 302 Division III ENVI 312 Division III
Attributes: ENVI Natural World Electives
ENVS Group EB-A Electives
EXPE Experiential Education Courses

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