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Fall. 3 Credits. Limited to 45 students. Prerequisite: BIOES 261 or permission of instructor. S-U grades optional. Offered alternate years. Next offered fall 2002. Lec and disc, T R 2:30-3:45. During the first 6 weeks of class, the Thursday meetings may run to 5:30 because of field trips.
A.G. Power and E.C. Fernandes.
Analysis of the ecological processes operating in agricultural systems, with an emphasis on the
interactions between organisms. Topics include nutrient dynamics in agroecosystems, plant
competition and facilitation, intercropping, the ecology of species invasions, mutualism in
agroecosystems, plant-herbivore relations, plant-pathogen interactions, biological pest control
and evolutionary processes in agriculture. Case studies from both the tropics and the temperate
zone are used to illustrate important concepts.