Orientation Info

•	General Information
•	Instructor and TA

Section:
Contemporary Issues

13.	Habitat Fragmentation, Deforestation, and Desertification
14.	Exotic Species Introduction
15.	Pollution, Global Warming, and the Ozone Hole
16.	Conservation Biology: Mediation, Restoration, and Preservation

Section:
Abiotic Processes

9.	Light and Temperature
10.	Geology and Soils
11.	Chemical and Hydrological Cycles
12.	Disturbances: Geological and Contemporary

Section:
Biotic Processes

3.	Natural Selection and Evolution: The Ecology of Individuals
4.	Growth and Competition: Population and Metapopulation Dynamics
5.	Community Ecology: An Introduction to the Players and How to Measure Communities
6.	Producers: The Basis of Ecosystems
7.	Consumers: Herbivory, Predation, and Parasitism
8.	Decomposers: The End and The Beginning

Section:
Biomes

1.	Introduction to Global Biomes
2.	The Local Biome