Bi206a - Ecology (Spring 2025)

2 days ago

Waterloo, Canada Wilfrid Laurier University Full time

**Date**:Jan 27, 2025

**Location**: Waterloo, CA

**Company**:Wilfrid Laurier University

**Faculty/Academic Area**: Faculty of Science

**Department**: Biology

**Campus**: Waterloo

**Employee Group**: WLUFA

**Requisition ID**:8973

**Position Title**: BI206A - Ecology

**Term**: Spring 2025 (May 1 - Aug. 31)

**Days/Times**: M, W 11:30 am - 12:50 pm

**Hours per week/Hours Total**: 6 per week/36 total

**Type of Course**:On-Campus Lecture

**Anticipated Class Size**: 40

**Additional Course Requirements**: None

**Posted on**: January 27, 2025

**Posting ends**: February 11, 2025

**Position Summary**:
Ecology is the part of biology that examines the interrelationships between organisms and their environment, a topic that is critical for understanding the implications of the rapid environmental changes we are currently facing. This course will focus on the individual, population, and community levels of ecology. Each of these units will be delivered in the context of societally important issues including ecosystem services, habitat loss and fragmentation, and climate change.

Learning Outcomes:

- To understand fundamental ecological principles and theories, including: how individual organisms interact with their environment; population growth and regulation within suitable habitats across their range; the nature of change within communities and ecosystems; and important landscape-level factors;
- To demonstrate awareness of the interconnectedness among major ecological concepts and current ecological problems;
- To evaluate ecological research considering current global and societal ecological needs, including climate change, habitat loss and fragmentation, and ecosystem services;
- To demonstrate improved scientific literacy and further development of competencies, including critical analysis of information, teamwork, communication, problem identification, and information synthesis.

Topics Covered:
Web of Life; physical environment; biosphere; environmental variation; evolution and ecology; life history; behavioural ecology; population: distribution and abundance; population: dynamics; population: growth and regulation; species interaction: predation; species interaction: competition; species interaction: mutualism; species interactions: parasitism; communities; community change; biogeography; species diversity; ecosystems: production; ecosystems: energy and food webs; global ecology; conservation biology.

**Qualifications - Required**: PhD in Biological Sciences

**Qualifications - Areas of Specialization**: Ecology

**Salary**: $9206.40

**Application Deadline**: February 11, 2025

**Submit with Application**:
Required for All Applicants
- CV (required)

Required for External Applicants
- Names and Contact Information for Referees
- Evidence of Good Teaching
- Verification of highest degree

Optional
- Cover Letter
- Teaching Dossier
- Sample Course Outline (2-pages maximum)

**Applications may be addressed to**:
Dr. Matt Smith

Chair, Department of Biology

Wilfrid Laurier University

Waterloo, Ontario

**To Apply**:
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