Ecosystems: Energy, Patterns, and Disturbance

Credentials in Environmental Biology demonstrate competencies that include professionals working in environmental biology and require a solid understanding of major concepts including ecology, human population and development issues, biological principles related to water and soil, agriculture production, pest control, energy concepts, and pollution. They must also understand economic issues and considerations for policy development. Many of these professionals work in sustainability and urban planning and development arenas requiring an environmental biology foundation. Specifically, this badge demonstrates the earner's ability to explain how matter and energy flow through ecosystems including the characteristics of major biomes, the effects of ecological disturbances, and the effects of humans on ecosystems.