Academic Catalog 2025-2026

BIO 372 Ecological Knowledge

This Ecological Knowledge course introduces basic principles of ecology, including organism resource use and population dynamics; competition; predation, herbivory and parasitism exploitation, evolution and coevolution, speciation, multispecies interactions and food webs, biodiversity, ecological communities and succession, nutrient cycling and ecosystem services. Discussion of the relationship of Indigenous peoples to their landscape focusing on Ojibwe Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) and general human impacts on the environment.

Credits

3