Terrestrial Ecology 30413941

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Terrestrial Ecology (3041/3941)

• Are you interested in understanding
• How and why organisms live where they do?
• How competition, predation and other
  interactions affect
• animal behaviour
• animal numbers
• their evolution?
• How ecological principles are used in
  conservation biology and pest management?

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Details about the unit

• Mix of lectures, discussion of papers
• Own hands-on research project
• Must have done Ecological Methods (3023/3923)
• Includes pre-semester field trip to Dungog
• Plant and small mammal study in state forest with
  different management regimes

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Students in action at Dungog
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Previous research projects

• What tree characteristics do bats like for
  roosting?
• Do two slater species compete or simply prefer
  different habitats?
• Is herbivory greater on young or old leaves of
  trees?