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    • An-Najah National University

      Faculty of Science

      Department of Biology & Biotechnology

      Ecology

      Course Name: Ecology
      Course Number: 424516
      Instructors: Dr. Raed Alkowni
      Prerequisites :------
      Compulsory / Elective:Compulsory Course 

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      Course Description:

      This course is an advanced course in the foundations of ecology emphasizing population and community ecology. Lectures in basic ecological principles are supplemented with discussions of both current and historically important issues, as well as application of ecological principles to environmental problems.

      Intended learning Outcomes (ILO’s) :

      At the end of this course student will be able to:

      1. Explain the ecological concepts in evolution niches  that explaining the life and biodiversity
      2. Predict the balance of ecosystem and the biological interactions
      3. Address problems related to human impact on Environments
      4. Discuss the effective means to conserve and maintain the life diversity
      5. Discuss critically ecological and environmental problems related to human needs from water food and energy
      6. Suggest solutions for most universal ecological and environmental problems
      7. Self-regulating study and self-evaluate
      8. Apply computer and communication skills

      Textbook:
       Miller GT,  Spoolman SE (2015). Essentials of Ecology, 7th Edition, Stamford, CT, USA: Cengage Learning.
      Botkin, D. B. and Keller E. A. (2014). Environmental Science: Earth as a Living Planet (9th Ed.). John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
       
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  • Chapter One :Introduction

    • Introduction:
      Why Studying Ecology and Environmental Science;Levels of Studying Ecology; Differences among Ecological and Environmental Studies

       

      Objectives:
      1. To distinguish among different ecological levels and their applications.
      2. To differentiate between ecology and environmental sciences
    • Plan:
      First:Study the following file
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      Second:Answer the following assignment
    • Third: Review the Environmental science definition
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  • Chapter Two:Evolution and Biodiversity

  • Chapter Three: Ecosystems; Stability and Succession

    • Introduction:  
       Basic Characteristics of Ecosystems can be divided to Ecosystem Structure (ecological community & physical-chemical environment) and Ecosystem Processes (chemical cycling & energy flow). 

         

      Objectives:  
      1. Differentiate amnog basic characteristics of Ecosystems
      2. Recognise the community structure and function
      3. Apply energy flow efficiency on biodiversity of any ecosystem
      4. Know how species change Succession
      5. Aware of life and global chemical cycling
      6. Predict the balance of ecosystem
    • Plan:
      First:Review this materials
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      3-Ecosystems Stability and Succession File

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      Second: Join the following forum
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      What shall we do to keep our ecosystem balanced and healthy?!!!! Forum

  • Chapter Four: Ecological and environmental issues

    • Introduction:  
      Life is composed of many chemical elements, which have to be available in the right amounts, the right concentrations, and the right ratios to one another. If these conditions are not met, then life is limited. Water; soil and atmosphere have always been a place of deposition and storage for many chemical, gaseous and particulate wastes. When the amount of waste entering an area exceeds the ability to disperse or break down the pollutants, problems result.
      Modern civilization is believed to change the environment at a global level. Another new idea is that not only human life but also nonhuman life affects the environment of our whole planet and has changed it over the course of several billion years. 
           
      Objectives:  
      1. Recognize the major categories; constitutes and sources of pollutants with particular emphasis on human causing one’s
      2. Predict how the climate has changed over the Earth’s history
      3. Discuss critically what global warming is; what major kinds of evidence point to it; and what effects global warming might have.
      4. Suggest solutions to global pollution issues
    • Plan:
      First:Review this materials
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      4- Pollutions and Global perspectives File

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      Second: View these video links

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      Third: Join the following forum
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      The way to help the environment, is to control over human population Forum
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      The Demographic Transition Forum

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  • Chapter Five: Practical Ecology

    Conservation Biology and Ecological Restoration
    • Introduction:  
      Being the dominant species on Earth, humans have a moral obligation to ensure the long-term persistence of life. Ecological restoration is the process of assisting the recovery of an ecosystem that has been degraded, damaged, or destroyed. 
         
      Objectives:  
      1. Recognize the terminologies uses in ecological restoration
      2. Appreciate the ways that may be used for conserving ecosystem and biodiversities
      3. Suggest solutions for ecological problems and to be stored
       
      Plan:
      First:Review this materials
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      6-Restoration Ecology File

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