BI405
Community Ecology
0.5 Credit

Hours per week:
  • Lecture/Discussion: 3
  • Lab: 1.5

The structure and development of communities and ecosystems, with an emphasis on the examination of patterns in species richness, biodiversity, succession, island biogeography, and ecosystem energetics. Multivariate techniques to analyze community structure will be discussed. Applied issues will be examined, including sustainability, pollution and conservation.

Additional Course Information
Prerequisites
BI301 or BI306 (BI309 and a statistics course are recommended)