Fundamentos de Ecologia

•Consolidate basic concepts of Ecology (e.g., ecosystem, community, population, niche, food chain, diversity, competition, mutualism, commensalism, symbiosis, parasitism, ecosystem services).

•Gain knowledge about the main threats to ecosystems (e.g., overexploitation, pollution, effects of climate change) and the challenges and solutions for their management and conservation.

•Develop skills for scientific research in ecology (literature review, interpretation and synthesis of scientific literature, scientific writing and communication, hypothesis formulation, sampling design, field data collection, biological sample analysis in the lab, and data analysis).