COMMUNITY ECOLOGY

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Upper level ecology course which takes quantitative approaches to learning how organisms interact in communities and their natural ecosystems. This class concentrates on defining communities and exploring how different communities are maintained and/or modified with changing conditions. Topics include: community metrics, niche theory, organism interactions (competition, predator-prey relationships, mutualism, and commensalism), food web ecology, spatial ecology, and succession. PREREQ: BIOLOGY 257 AND BIOLOGY 258 ( BIOLOGY 303 OR PSYCH 215 ), ALL WITH A GRADE OF C OR BETTER