UNSW Handbook Course - Population and Community Ecology

Population and Community Ecology - BIOS3111


	Faculty: Faculty of Science
	School: School of Biological, Earth & Environmental Sciences
	Course Outline: http://www.bees.unsw.edu.au/
	Campus: Kensington Campus
	Career: Undergraduate
	Units of Credit: 6
	EFTSL: 0.125 (more info)
	Contact Hours per Week: 5
	Enrolment Requirements:
	None
	Excluded: BIOS3301
	Fee Band: 2 (more info)
	Further Information: See Class Timetable

Description

Factors regulating dynamics of interacting populations, renewable resource management, ecosystem stability, cycles and chaos, simulation modelling in ecology, niche theory, competition, habitat selection, community structure, species diversity, island biogeography, ecological gradients. Succession following disturbance (fire, mining, or logging). Practical work is essential and may involve a field component.

Assumed Knowledge: BIOS1101 and BIOS2011 and MATH1041 (or higher level of statistics)

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