This laboratory course serves as the capstone for the biology core curriculum. Students will learn integrative concepts linking topics from earlier introductory courses together in terms of population, community, and ecosystem-level ecological processes. We will explore these concepts through case studies covering diverse topics from biodiversity patterns to anthropogenic effects on individuals to ecosystems. This course will reinforce the skills introduced in earlier core courses, and will build upon these skills with further expectations of writing, primary literature synthesis and review, and critical thinking.