Spring 2027

Principles of Wildlife Ecology

Covers major environmental factors affecting wildlife, population structure and behavior, and regional wildlife communities and their conservation.

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Recent recorded grades — Fall 2023: 3.26 GPA, 63.0% A/AB (n=46 letter grades); Fall 2024: 3.09 GPA, 52.9% A/AB (n=51 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.38 GPA, 65.1% A/AB (n=43 letter grades).

What you’ll be able to do

  • Apply the scientific method to test ecological hypotheses and resolve wildlife management issues

  • Describe and distinguish among the important properties of each ecological level of organization, including individual organisms, populations, communities, and ecosystems

  • Explain how animals balance between inputs and outputs of water, heat, energy, and nutrients to maintain homeostasis

  • Explain how animals select habitats and food and adapt to seasonal changes

  • Use cost-benefit analysis to determine the environmental conditions under which animals are likely to defend territories or join social groups

  • Define life history parameters that influence population growth and regulation and distinguish between exponential and logistic population growth

  • Describe and distinguish among the different types of interspecific interactions and model how interspecific

  • Describe the major types of ecological communities and how they vary in space and time

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Prerequisites

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Declared in Wildlife Ecology

  • Declared in Wildlife Ecology
F&WECOL 318 used by

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  • Declared in Wildlife Ecology

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Student experience

the class

Recent recorded grades — Fall 2023: 3.26 GPA, 63.0% A/AB (n=46 letter grades); Fall 2024: 3.09 GPA, 52.9% A/AB (n=51 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.38 GPA, 65.1% A/AB (n=43 letter grades).

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Topics

  • Environmental factors affecting wildlife and population structure/behavior.
  • Animal physiological regulation including water, heat, energy, and nutrient balance.
  • Life history parameters and models of population growth and regulation.
  • Ecological community types and their variation across space and time.

Skills

  • Applying the scientific method to test ecological hypotheses and resolve wildlife management issues.
  • Using cost-benefit analysis to determine environmental conditions for animal territorial defense and social grouping.

Grades

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1316 courses over the same term, each with at least 30 recorded letter grades. Cross-listed courses count once. GPA is not a measure of difficulty or teaching quality. The typical course is the median by recorded grade count; tied values are not counted as lower. Grade counts describe course scale, not unique students or typical section size.

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Sources & history

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Dataset & model

Recorded 2026-10-14

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