Instructor: 張文亮教授

Credits: 3

Grading: Midterm 30%, Final 30%, Homework 20%,learning paper 20%

Textbook: essentials of ecology(third edition)

Course outline:
1. Environmental problems,their causes,and sustainability
2. Environmental history,learning from the past
3. Science,systems,matter,and energy
4. Ecosystems,what are they and how do they work?
5. Evolution and biodiversity
6. Climate and terrestrial biodiversity
7. Aquatic biodiversity
8. Community ecology
9. Population ecology
10. Applying population ecology,the human population
11. Sustaining terrestrial biodiversity;Managing and protecting ecosystems
12.Sustaining biodiversity;the species approach
13 Sustaining aquatic biodiversity