Runs annually in Trimester 2
This introductory course covers concepts within (i) population ecology, including the distribution and abundance of populations along with their dynamics and growth; (ii) community ecology, including the concepts of species diversity, species interactions and the factors that influence those interactions; (iii) ecosystem ecology, specifically the flow of energy and nutrients in ecosystems; (iv) marine, terrestrial and freshwater ecosystems, exposing students to the breadth of ecological concepts across different ecosystem types.