Teaching
Trimester 2
Offered: 2023
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.
Trimester 2
Taught: 2022
This course examines the diversity of plants in the landscape and gives students further experience in plant identification. It considers the major structural components of the flora of regional ecosystems and the factors which determine the distribution of plants. There are sections dealing with plant diversity, ecology, plant-animal interactions and biomes as biological indicators