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Population and Community Ecology - BIOS3111
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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: 0.12500 (more info)
 
 
Indicative 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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