Variant of CIP 2000 - NGS University-level Historical Groupings

• 6 - Biological, Biomedical and Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources
• 61 - Biology and Biomedical Sciences

26.1301 - Ecology

This instructional program class comprises any 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. These programs include courses 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.

• Example Program Names:

  • Animal ecology
  • Ecology
  • Plant ecology
  • Wildlife ecology

• Exclusion

  • Plant sciences(01.1101)
  • Natural resources(03.0101)
  • Environmental studies(03.0103)
  • Environmental science(03.0104)
  • Environmental biology(26.1305)