{"id":8657,"date":"2022-09-06T16:52:23","date_gmt":"2022-09-06T23:52:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/?p=8657"},"modified":"2022-09-06T16:52:23","modified_gmt":"2022-09-06T23:52:23","slug":"biol-548j-updated-course-description-and-syllabus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/post-8657","title":{"rendered":"BIOL 548J updated course description and syllabus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>BIOL 548J, Ecosystem Ecology &#8211; 1 credit graduate module<\/em><\/strong><em><br \/>\n<strong>September 8 &#8211; October 6, 13:30 &#8211; 15:00 in Biodiversity 224<\/strong>.<br \/>\nInstructor: Laura Parfrey,\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:lwparfrey@botany.ubc.ca\">lwparfrey@botany.ubc.ca<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Contact Dr. Parfrey if you would like to register but will miss the first day.<\/strong>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Course description: <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Think ecosystem ecology is all about nitrogen cycling? Think again!<br \/>\nEcosystem 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.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>We will consider contemporary topics, including biodiversity and ecosystem function, concepts of homeostasis and stability, and discuss how ecosystems have changed over geological time<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/files\/2022\/09\/Biol-548j-Ecosystem-Ecology-Syllabus-2022.pdf\">Biol 548j Ecosystem Ecology Syllabus 2022<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BIOL 548J, Ecosystem Ecology &#8211; 1 credit graduate module September 8 &#8211; October 6, 13:30 &#8211; 15:00 in Biodiversity 224. Instructor: Laura Parfrey,\u00a0lwparfrey@botany.ubc.ca. Contact Dr. Parfrey if you would like to register but will miss the first day.\u00a0 Course description: Think ecosystem ecology is all about nitrogen cycling? Think again! Ecosystem ecology is the most&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18841,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3836],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18841"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8657"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8657\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8659,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8657\/revisions\/8659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}