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May 19, 2025
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Fall 2025 Undergraduate Catalog
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BIO 386 - Ecosystem Ecology and the Global Environment
Ecosystem ecology with an emphasis on biogeochemical cycling in oceans and on land, as well as on biosphere-atmosphere interactions. Topics include earth system processes such as climate and atmospheric composition, the hydrological cycle, cycling of chemicals such as nutrients and metals in the oceans, the soil cycle, and the fate and transport of materials in the atmosphere. Natural and perturbed systems are discussed. This course routinely offers an opportunity to satisfy the Stony Brook Curriculum WRTD and Upper Division Writing Requirements for the Biology and Biochemistry majors. Students who intend to use the writing assignment in this course to satisfy these requirements must register for BIO 459 when they register for BIO 386.
3 credits
Prerequisite(s): C or higher in BIO 201 ; and CHE 129 or CHE 131 or CHE 141 or CHE 152
Advisory Preq: MAR 104
Offered: This course is offered as both BIO 386 and ENS 311 .
DEC: H
SBC: STAS
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