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BIOL 111

Ecology and the Environment

3.00 units · Undergraduate

Winter 2026

Topics

  • Population and community ecology
  • population growth
  • resource management
  • biodiversity
  • agriculture
  • air and water pollution
  • energy
  • climate change
  • environmental sustainability.

Readings

  • Required: Environmental Change & Challenge: A Canadian Perspective, 6th edition, Oxford University Press Canada. Additional readings, if needed for Spotlights, are posted in the relevant onQ folders. No supplemental materials listed.
Winter 2025

Topics

  • Community ecology
  • Population ecology
  • Learning

Readings

  • Required Course Textbook Course Textbooks Edition(s) Publisher
Winter 2022

Topics

  • Learning
  • Environmental change
  • Community ecology
  • Population ecology

Readings

  • Required readings to accompany Instructor’s lectures are from the textbook Environmental Change & Challenge, 6th Edition by Philip Dearden and Bruce Mitchell.
  • Listed material: You can also read Braiding Sweetgrass online here: https://ocul-qu.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01OCUL_QU/r9dor2/alma9952362903605158
  • Listed material: Textbook Lectures by Instructor (highlighted BLUE below)
  • Listed material: Spotlight Series of Guest Speakers and Films (highlighted ORANGE below)
  • Listed material: Term Essay (highlighted PURPLE below)
2020-2021

Topics

  • Biodiversity
  • Climate change
  • Ecosystems
  • Evolution
  • Learning
  • Community ecology
  • Population ecology

Readings

  • Listed material: Core Texts (required)
  • Listed material: Living in the Environment, 4th Canadian edition (2016) by C.E. Wolfe and G.T. Miller. Additional supplemental material and access links will be made available electronically to students via the course site.
2019-2020

Topics

  • Biodiversity
  • Climate change
  • Ecosystems
  • Evolution
  • Learning
  • Community ecology
  • Population ecology

Readings

  • Listed material: Core Texts (required)
  • Listed material: Living in the Environment, 4th Canadian edition (2016) by C.E. Wolfe and G.T. Miller. Additional supplemental material and access links will be made available electronically to students via the course site.
2016-2017

Topics

  • Topics covered include a general introduction to environmental problems, ecosystems, evolution and
  • biodiversity, climate and terrestrial biodiversity, aquatic biodiversity, community ecology, population
  • ecology, the human population, sustaining biodiversity: ecosystem and species approaches, food and soil
  • Population ecology
  • Climate change

Readings

  • Required: Miller, G.T. and D. Hackett. 2014. Living in the Environment (3rd Canadian ed). Nelson.
2015-2016

Topics

  • Topics covered include a general introduction to environmental problems, ecosystems, evolution
  • and biodiversity, climate and terrestrial biodiversity, aquatic biodiversity, community ecology
  • population ecology, the human population, sustaining biodiversity: ecosystem and species
  • efficiency and renewable energy, climate change and ozone loss, air pollution, water pollution and

Readings

  • Required: Miller, G.T. and D. Hackett. 2014. Living in the Environment (3rd Canadian ed). Nelson.
2014-2015

Topics

  • Topics covered include a general introduction to environmental problems, ecosystems, evolution
  • and biodiversity, climate and terrestrial biodiversity, aquatic biodiversity, community ecology, population
  • ecology, the human population, sustaining biodiversity: ecosystem and species approaches, food and soil
  • Population ecology
  • Climate change
2013-2014

Topics

  • Topics covered include a general introduction to environmental problems, ecosystems, evolution
  • and biodiversity, climate and terrestrial biodiversity, aquatic biodiversity, community ecology, population
  • ecology, the human population, sustaining biodiversity: ecosystem and species approaches, food and soil
  • Population ecology
  • Climate change
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