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BIOL 411

Global Change Biology

3.00 units · Undergraduate

Fall 2025

Topics

  • Biogeochemical linkage interactions, Deep Ecology, Socio-Ecological Stewardship, and
  • Biodiversity
  • Climate change
  • Learning

Readings

  • Required: No individual textbook is available that would cover the scope of the course’s content. Selected published papers (from international peer-reviewed science journals such as Global Change Biology) and book chapters chosen by the prof and by the students will be posted on the onQ system and referenced on the course web site (https://www.queensu.ca/terrestrial-ecosystem- ecology/teaching/biol-411-global-change-biology/biol-411-global-change-biology-fall-2025).
2022

Topics

  • biodiversity loss, invasive species, climate change, nitrogen pollution, antibiotic resistance). Strong
  • Ecology
2020-2021

Topics

  • biodiversity loss, invasive species, climate change, nitrogen pollution, antibiotic resistance). Strong
  • Complex Adaptive Systems, Progress-traps, Deep Ecology, Socio-Ecological Stewardship, and Complex
  • Carbon Cycle and Climate Change
  • Antibiotic Resistance and Virus epi/pandemics – rapid evolution of human pathogens
  • Biodiversity – 6th extinction
  • invasive species
  • Freshwater extraction – growing demand, limited supply
  • Ocean acidification – cause, thresholds, and biological impacts
  • Case study: Climate change and other recent perturbations in the Arctic
  • Deep Ecology and other Environmental Philosophies
  • Synthesis
  • Learning
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