Course: SAT 100 Principles of Agroecology

Reading and Multimedia Assignments

Reading Assignments
Reading Assignments

Read Chapter 16, "Agroecosystem Diversity and Stability" and Chapter 17, "Disturbance, Succession and Agroecosystem Management" in Gliessman book.

This unit examines the interactions of ecological and agricultural systems that based in large part on the diversity of the system. The more diversity in an agroecosystem, the more able it is to recover from a disturbance.  Various methods of methods of increasing ecological diversity are discussed in these readings.