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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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| 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 50
U.S.
Colleges with the
most degrees awarded
of Ecology among the 2006-2007
graduating class.
|  | Iowa State University
Ames, IA | 77
(1.8%) |  |  |
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| | University of Maryland-College Park
College Park, MD | 50
(0.8%) |  | |
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| | University of Arizona
Tucson, AZ | 47
(0.8%) | | |
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| | Princeton University
Princeton, NJ | 39
(3.4%) |  |  |
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| | University of California-Santa Cruz
Santa Cruz, CA | 39
(1.1%) | |  |
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| | University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
Minneapolis, MN | 30
(0.5%) |  | |
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| | University of California-Irvine
Irvine, CA | 28
(0.5%) | | |
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| | Oklahoma State University-Main Campus
Stillwater, OK | 21
(0.6%) | | |
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| | Rochester Institute of Technology
Rochester, NY | 20
(0.9%) | |  |
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| | Saint Cloud State University
Saint Cloud, MN | 19
(0.8%) | | |
* The number of bachelor's degrees awarded among the 2006-2007 graduating class.
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