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Ecology General advice for undergraduates interested in Ecology and Evolution
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 Photo: Bumble bee pollinating flower.
Photo: Collecting soil core.
Photo: Juvenile grasshopper. |
Ecology is the study of interactions among organisms and between organisms and the environment. It is a broad field that includes many levels of biological organization, from individuals (behavior and physiology) to populations (population dynamics) to communities (collections of species) to ecosystems (communities and their abiotic environment). As such, it incorporates a much wider range of concepts, questions and approaches than other biological disciplines such as cell biology or biochemistry. Ecology provides the conceptual framework for dealing with a wide range of environmental problems facing humanity.
Most students who take this class at UH are juniors or seniors. If you are interested in pursuing a career in ecology or evolutionary biology, however, you should consider taking this course as a sophomore so that you will have time during your undergraduate career to take additional ecology and evolution courses and get exposed to research in an ecology and evolution laboratory.
Course materials will be posted here as they are passed out in class.
I'm posting the exams from 2006 below. Note that the course has changed since then, with a new text, somewhat different topics, and the exam format has shifted. The exams at CASA will be mostly multiple choice, with one or two essays.
Updated 8/09 |
