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Overview for Ecology

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.

Careers for Ecology Majors

A major in Ecology is highly relevant for the following careers. National averages for wages in each career is provided.

Colleges Offering a Major in Ecology

Top 1 Maine Colleges with the highest percentage of Ecology among the 2007-2008 graduating class.

AddInfoCollege Name Degrees Awarded/
Percentage
SelectivityTuition
Unity College
Unity, ME
 5
(4.0%)
Less Selective$20,750 
1
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Degrees awarded represents the number of bachelor's degrees awarded among the 2007-2008 graduating class.