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COMMUNITY ECOLOGY "The Ecology of Biodiversity"
Bioe 147/247
Spring 2013
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Relevant Seminar Series: EEB and ENVS
modified: 31 March 2013
NOTE: all the other pages are for 2012 unless otherwise notes.
SCOPE
Bio 147/247 is an upper division/graduate course about the ecology of
biological diversity. It uses case histories of well-studied marine and
terrestrial systems to develop the major themes of community biology:
structure, trophic dynamics, succession, complex
interactions among species, herbivory, evolution and
coevolution. Lectures and discussions will be supplemented by extensive readings from the text and from the primary
literature. Students need a solid background in ecology so that we can cover
advanced material in this course, with no more than a quick review of the
basics.
PREREQUISITES
This course is designed to follow one of these
courses: Introductory Ecology (Bio107), Marine Ecology (Bio 108), Freshwater Ecology
(Bio 155) or Plant Ecology (Bio 145). One of those courses, or a similar
ecology course that goes beyond the ecology taught in an Introductory Biology
sequence, is a required prerequisite; a course such as Bioe
20C is not adequate. NO EXCEPTIONS.
TEXTBOOK: P. Morin,
Community Ecology, 2nd ed
(2011). You can get this either new or used from the campus bookshop, the
publisher (Blackwell's) or Amazon; there is also an e-book option (bookshop,
publishers).
I also need to print out pages from a lecture supplement, that is available to you on the class website. You are REQUIRED to bring a hard copy of the relevant pages to every
lecture.
LECTURE: MWF 11:00-12:10 in Physical Sciences 110
SECTIONS: Wed 3:30-4:40 NatSci Annex 103; Fri 9:30-10:40 NatSci Annex 103
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