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BIOL 300 Ecology Units: 3.00
An exploration of the relationships between living things and their environment in an evolutionary framework. Topics include constraints, organismal ecology, population dynamics, interactions, community structure, energy and elemental flow through ecosystems, and global diversity patterns. We will collect, analyze, and interpret ecological data.
NOTE QUBS Field Trip: estimated cost $70.
NOTE QUBS Field Trip: estimated cost $70.
Learning Hours: 118 (36 Lecture, 21 Laboratory, 12 Online Activity, 16 Off-Campus Activity, 33 Private Study)
Requirements: Prerequisite BIOL 103/3.0.
Recommended BIOL 206/3.0, BIOL 212/3.0, and a second year statistics (e.g., BIOL 243/3.0, PSYC 202/3.0, STAT 269/3.0).
Offering Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Science
Course Learning Outcomes:
- Analyze and interpret student collected data, which includes data management, visualization and statistical analysis.
- Apply life-history, population, community and ecosystem concepts to generate hypotheses and understand patterns in ecological data collected by students.
- Apply practical field and laboratory skills to collect data.
- Explain the basic concepts underlying life history, population, community and ecosystem ecology, and provide a critique of their strengths, shortcomings and significance.
- Identify and assess the linkages between evolution and ecology at all ecological scales.
- Integrate across ecological scales to understand and assess current environmental issues.