An introduction to fundamental ecological principles and illustration of how these are applied to current environmental problems at the level of organisms, populations, communities and ecosystems. Topics to include the nature of ecological experiments; population dynamics; population harvesting; ecological processes structuring biological communities in space and time; energy and nutrient flows in ecosystems, the relationship between ecological goods and services. Lect: 3 hrs. Prerequisites: BLG 151 and CHY 113 and CHY 142 Course Weight: 1.00 Billing Units: 1
