Academic Bulletin 2025-2026 
    
    Aug 02, 2025  
Academic Bulletin 2025-2026

BIO 330 - Population and Community Ecology


Credits: 4
A study of the dynamics of populations and how they change with time and interact with other populations of mutualists, competitors, predators, and prey. Students examine the emergent properties of communities (interacting population assemblages) and ecosystems such as diversity, productivity, energy flow, and nutrient dynamics. Laboratories emphasize investigations in local field sites. One laboratory per week.

Prerequisite: BIO 219  OR BIO 220 , OR BIO 221  AND BIO 250 , and either MATH 141  or MATH 151 .

Distribution Requirements: QR, SP.