BIOL 3250K: Ecosystem Ecology

4 Credit Hours

Prerequisite: (BIOL 1108 and BIOL 1108L) and (CHEM 1211 and CHEM 1211L)
Students in ecosystem ecology will study how energy and material flows and cycles through both the living (plants, animals, microbes) and non-living (soils, atmosphere) components of natural systems. Classes and lab exercises will be used to examine the influence of biological, geological and chemical processes. Students will consider factors that alter ecosystem function including human activities, from the molecular to the global scale.