Wm C Brown. Brower, et al. Field and Laboratory Methods for General Ecology. C. Brown publishers. A 3-ring binder for the many handouts.
Ecology is the study of generalizable patterns in the way organisms interact with their environment.
The course is geared to Biology majors, ES majors, and Teaching Certificate students. Your background and needs may differ, but I start by assuming that all of you want to know how the natural world is organized and how we study it. Human influences on the natural world are considered only indirectly in this course, but those of you interested in human problems should find the theory and methods of this course make you approach those problems more scientifically. Mondays will, in general, be lectures, but I intend for them to be interactive. For instance, I may present a classic study but get you to interpret it.