A program that focuses on the scientific study of the relationships and interactions of small-scale biological systems, such as organisms, to each other, to complex and whole systems, and to the physical and other non-biological aspects of their environments. Includes instruction in biogeochemistry; landscape and/or marine/aquatic dynamics; decomposition; global and regional elemental budgets; biotic and abiotic regulation of nutrient cycles; ecophysiology; ecosystem resilience, disturbance, and succession; community and habitat dynamics; organismal interactions (co-evolution, competition, predation); paleoecology, and evolutionary ecology.
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Top 49
U.S.
Colleges with the
highest percentage
of
Ecology among the 2007-2008
graduating class.
| | Paul Smiths College of Arts and Science
Paul Smiths, NY | 6
(6.0%) |  |  | |
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| | Princeton University
Princeton, NJ | 51
(4.5%) |  |  | |
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| | Unity College
Unity, ME | 5
(4.0%) | | | |
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| | Connecticut College
New London, CT | 15
(3.4%) |  | - | |
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| | University of Maryland Eastern Shore
Princess Anne, MD | 7
(1.6%) |  |  | |
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| | University of California-Santa Cruz
Santa Cruz, CA | 53
(1.5%) | | - | |
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| | Northern State University
Aberdeen, SD | 3
(1.2%) | | | |
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| | Iowa State University
Ames, IA | 48
(1.1%) | | | |
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| | Saint Francis University
Loretto, PA | 3
(0.9%) | | | |
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| | Appalachian State University
Boone, NC | 24
(0.9%) | | | |
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Degrees awarded represents the number of bachelor's degrees awarded among the 2007-2008 graduating class.