BIOL 548J, Ecosystem Ecology – 1 credit graduate module
September 8 – October 6, 13:30 – 15:00 in Biodiversity 224.
Instructor: Laura Parfrey, lwparfrey@botany.ubc.ca.
Contact Dr. Parfrey if you would like to register but will miss the first day.
Course description:
Think ecosystem ecology is all about nitrogen cycling? Think again!
Ecosystem ecology is the most holistic ecological discipline, explicitly considering ecological systems and all their parts. In this course we consider ecosystems as stocks and fluxes of energy and matter.
We review papers and concepts to understand what measurements of nutrients, carbon and biomass can tell us about the movement and transformation of energy/matter how ecosystems and more broadly how ecosystems operate and change through time.
We will consider contemporary topics, including biodiversity and ecosystem function, concepts of homeostasis and stability, and discuss how ecosystems have changed over geological time
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