Overview
Description
Basic ecological principles, with emphasis on population dynamics, population genetics, and interactions between species.
Requirements
Units
Lecture3
Catalog Details
Offering
Every Fall and Spring
Terms
fall, spring
Core
CO9, CO11
Attributes
Standard
Learning Outcomes
- explain how science relates to a problem of societal concern, specifically global change and impacts on natural systems and human societies.
- discuss modern ecological theory, and be able to distinguish key concepts for bodies of thought including: population biology, niche theory, metapopulation biology, island biogeography, and others.
- apply critical thinking when answering questions that relate ecological theory to living systems of plants and animals.
- solve mathematical problems in ecological theory using graphical and qualitative approaches.
- read and interpret scientific literature.