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2016-2017 UMass Dartmouth Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2016-2017 UMass Dartmouth Undergraduate Catalog [Archived Catalog]

BIO 402 - Community Ecology

Credits 3
Lecture / 3 hours per week
Requirements: Prerequisite: BIO 121,122,131,132,210,211,234,244; Biology majors only or permission of the instructor
Patterns and processes shaping distributions, abundance, and diversity of species. Topics include interactions between pairs of species, structuring of multispecies communities, and responses of species pairs and larger species networks to the physical environment. These questions are explored through conceptual frameworks of communities, mathematical models, foundational publications in the field, and current research. Plant, animal, and microbial communities are considered. Cross-listed with BIO 502
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