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.
| A major in Ecology is highly relevant for the following careers. National averages for wages in each career is provided. |
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Top 3
Michigan
Colleges with the
highest percentage
of
Ecology among the 2007-2008
graduating class.
| | Northern Michigan University
Marquette, MI | 3
(0.2%) |  |  | |
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| | University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
Ann Arbor, MI | 12
(0.2%) |  |  | |
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| | University of Michigan-Flint
Flint, MI | 1
(0.1%) | | | |
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