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Core courses:
UPE
301 Population, Community, and Behavioral Ecology will
deal with how organisms interact within populations and among species.
The course will deal with current concepts of population growth and its
limits, stability of population numbers, interactions among species -
including competition, predation, and behavioral adaptations to these
processes, determinants and maintenance of species diversity, community
structure, distribution, and disturbance.
UPE
302 Physiological Ecology and Ecosystem Science will
deal with the processes and factors that determine the capture and flow
of energy and materials through individual organisms, populations, and
entire ecosystems, both natural and disturbed. Interactions between ecosystem
processes and the determinants of species number, home range, etc., will
link this course to the material covered in UPE 301. Some emphasis will
be given to human impacts that affect the movements of energy and materials
in ecosystems, and studies of paleoecology will be used to provide a historical
context for current patterns of global change.
Currently listed courses counting for the UPE:
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