| Date | Topic | Reading |
| Introduction |
4-13 | |
| Concept of Ecosystem |
151-166 | |
| Adaptation |
29-34 | |
| Climate |
35-62 | |
| Water Balance | 63-78 | |
| Thermal Balance | 79-98 | |
| Light and Biological Cycles | 99-113 | |
| Nutrients | 115-128 | |
| EXAM 1 | ||
| Soils | 129-148 | |
| Ecosystem Energetics | 167-194 | |
| Biogeochemical cycles | 195-222 | |
| Freshwater Ecosystems | 289-324 | |
| Freshwater Ecosystems | 289-324 | |
| Saltwater Ecosystems | 325-358 | |
| EXAM 2 | ||
| Properties of Populations | 361-388 | |
| Population Growth and Regulation | 389-410 | |
| Population Growth and Regulation | 389-410 | |
| Intraspecific Competition | 411-426 | |
| Life History Patterns | 427-454 | |
| Interspecific Competition | 479-500 | |
| Nov. 16 | Predation | 501-520 |
| Nov. 18 | EXAM 3 | |
| Nov. 23 | Population Genetics | 455-478 |
| Nov. 30 | Community Ecology | 597-632 |
| Dec. 2 | ||
| Dec. 7 | Disturbance & Succession | 633-686 |
| Dec. 18 | FINAL EXAM |