Ecology

AY2017/2018 Semester 2

The course covers concepts in population, community, and applied ecology. Topics included are: population parameters, their measurements and methods of studying populations; population growth; population fluctuations and cycles, regulation and dynamics; life history patterns and strategies; inter-species interactions and co-evolutionary interactions, organizational and functional basis in plant and animal communities; changes in community structure, organization and composition over time; the influences of agents of disturbance or stability as well as diversity indices as measurements of community structure. Topics of this course are taught with special emphases on linkages to the current school curricula.