These interactions are considered to be the major biological forces affecting community structure. My simple goal is to stimulate your interest in this exciting and important field and provide you with a solid background that will enable you to understand the problems facing our natural resources. Please note that lectures will not be given directly from the textbook. Instead, your text will serve as supplementary and complementary material. To encourage you to read, several questions from each exam will be drawn from the text.
Attendance is highly recommended but at the discretion of each student.
Because much of the material that I will present derives from sources other than your textbook and supplemental readings, I think you will find the lectures indispensable to earning a satisfactory grade. Furthermore, I would ask that when you attend class, you arrive on time tardiness is disruptive. If you do miss a class, it will be your responsibility to obtain lecture notes from one of your fellow classmates. Three exams and a comprehensive final will be given throughout the semester. Short answers, essays and problems to be solved will comprise the format of these exams.