Office Hours: 9-10 AM, Monday & Friday in 2013 VLSB.

E-mail: mepower@berkeley.edu

Message from Prof. Power:

During the Ecology section of this course, we will explore the heterogeneous, fluctuating environments of Earth, the ways in which plants and animals interact with these environments, and how effects of environments on organisms and organisms on environments are often mediated through webs of interactions that include competition, predation, parasitism, and mutualism. We will look at how the biosphere works as a "system" and how ecologists and other earth scientists are trying to forecast the environmental consequences of land use, climate change, population growth, and other important topics we hear about in the news every day.