A program that focuses on the scientific study of the relationships and interactions of small-scale biological systems, such as organisms, to each other, to complex and whole systems, and to the physical and other non-biological aspects of their environments. Includes instruction in biogeochemistry; landscape and/or marine/aquatic dynamics; decomposition; global and regional elemental budgets; biotic and abiotic regulation of nutrient cycles; ecophysiology; ecosystem resilience, disturbance, and succession; community and habitat dynamics; organismal interactions (co-evolution, competition, predation); paleoecology, and evolutionary ecology. (Moved from 26.0603)
| Occupation | Employment Average | Wage | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 Estimated | 2010 Projected |
Annual Avg Openings |
Long-term Outlook |
Mean | Entry | Experienced | |
| Natural Sciences Managers | 870 | 890 | 16 | Caution | $38.79 | $23.87 | $46.25 |
| Zoologists and Wildlife Biologists | suppressed | no record | |||||
| Life Scientists, All Other | 190 | 210 | 9 | Caution | no record | ||
| Biological Science Teachers, Postsecondary | 1,310 | 1,590 | 65 | Great | no record | ||