1. Introduction: Historical Background; Organisms and their Environment; Natural Selection; Effects of Environmental Factors on an Organism; Adaptations; Tolerance; Ecological Niche (KK)
2. Biogeography: Species Richness and Diversity and their Patterns; Island Biogeography (RT)
3. Population Ecology: Life History Strategies; Properties of Populations; Population Growth; Intraspecific Population Regulation; Metapopulations (RT)4. Ecosystem Ecology I.: Climate; Energy Flow in Biosphere; Solar Radiation; Primary Production (KK)
5. Biomes I: Terrestrial Ecosystems; Coastal and Wetland Ecosystems; Land-Water Margins (KK)
6. Biomes II: Aquatic Ecosystems; Differences between Terrestrial and Aquatic Ecosystems (KK)
7. Ecosystem Ecology : Nutrient cycles; Ecosystem Energetics, Decomposition; Biogeochemical Cycles (KK)
8. Interspecific Interactions I: Competition; Predation; Herbivory; Top-down and Bottom-up Effects (RT)
9. Interspecific Interactions II: Mutualism; Network Ecology; Trophic Networks (RT)
10. Community Ecology I: Ecological Community Concepts; Community Structure and Dynamics (RT)
11. Community Ecology II: Ecological Stability; Disturbance; Succession; Landscape Ecology (RT)
12. Human Ecology: Anthropocene; Human Resource Use and Sustainability; Global (climate) Change (RT)