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Unit description
Introduces ecological principles in the context of productive agricultural, forest, terrestrial, and marine systems. Important ecological and landscape processes of energy flow, nutrient and water cycles, and community dynamics are examined. Students will compare natural and managed ecosystems.
Unit content
1. Ecology in productive agricultural, forest, terrestrial, and marine systems
2. Interspecific interactions in agricultural, forest, terrestrial, and marine systems
3. Managing healthy community ecology
4. Managing healthy ecosystems: towards ecological resilience
5. Landscape to biosphere ecology - human interactions
6. Valuing ecosystem services
Learning outcomes
Unit Learning Outcomes express learning achievement in terms of what a student should know, understand and be able to do on completion of a unit. These outcomes are aligned with the graduate attributes. The unit learning outcomes and graduate attributes are also the basis of evaluating prior learning.
| On completion of this unit, students should be able to: | |
|---|---|
| 1 | explain key ecological concepts including species interactions and interactions between organisms and the environment |
| 2 | assess, describe and illustrate energy flows, complex food webs and biogeochemical cycles in an ecosystem context |
| 3 | critically evaluate attributes and functioning of natural and managed systems |
| 4 | critically evaluate interactions between humans and the environment and describe the differences between natural and managed systems. |
On completion of this unit, students should be able to:
- explain key ecological concepts including species interactions and interactions between organisms and the environment
- assess, describe and illustrate energy flows, complex food webs and biogeochemical cycles in an ecosystem context
- critically evaluate attributes and functioning of natural and managed systems
- critically evaluate interactions between humans and the environment and describe the differences between natural and managed systems.
Teaching and assessment
Fee information
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