| Department of Ecology | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Earliest Possible Year | BSc. 3 year to MSc. 1 year | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Duration | One block | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Credits | 7.5 (ECTS) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Course Level | Joint BSc and MSc the course is open to all programmes and is suitable for last year of BSc or first year of MSc. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Examination | Continuous Assessment written examination and oral examination Some Aid allowed No aid at written exams, all aid allowed at reports and presentations Description of Examination: one presentation, one report, three smaller written exams. Weight: report 30%, written exams 60%, presentation 10% 13-point scale, internal examiner | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Requirement For Attending Exam | Participation in min. 75% of course activities | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Organisation of Teaching | lectures 35% student seminars and discussions 35% exercises and excursions 30% | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Block Placement | Block 4 Week Structure: A | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Teaching Language | English | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Optional Prerequisites | - Naturressourcer og Økologi or similar basic ecology course - Danske Feltflora og Vegetation or Kulturlanters Botanik or Jordbund & Plantekundskab or another basic botany course - Matematik og databehandling or another basic, | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Areas of Competence the Course Will Address | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Basic Science - Familiarity with all the major questions and methods in modern plant ecology. - Knowledge of the factors that determine the abundance and distribution of plants, and how these factors can be investigated - Understanding how modern ecological science is done with plants, starting with observation and natural history, description of patterns, building of models and theories, making and testing of hypotheses. Applied Science - Evaluation of alternative ecological theories and their application - Application of ecological principles to applied problems in ecosystem management and plant production - Judgment of alternative solutions to applied problems concerning plant populations and communities Ethics and Values - Awareness of the difference between scientific and ethical issues in management of plant populations and communities and their overlap - Ability to discuss both the scientific and ethical aspect of applied problems concerning plant populations and communities | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Course Objectives | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| The objective of the course is to give the student a rigorous understanding of the factors and interactions that determine the abundance and distribution of plants, and which serve the scientific bases for vegetation management and plant production. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Course Contents | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| - Plant population ecology: dispersal, establishment, demography, density dependence, population growth, regulation and extinction, plant strategies - Population interactions: competition, herbivory, parasitism and disease, allelopathy - Plant community ecology: community structure, succession, species diversity, invasive plants, plant conservation - Plant in ecosystems: primary production, world's terrestrial vegetation type, global change | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Teaching And Learning Methods | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Lectures, exercises and excursions, student presentations followed by student-led discussions, teacher-led discussions of articles, group work | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Course Litterature | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Gurevitch, J., Scheiner, S.M., & Fox, G.A. (2002) The ecology of Plants. Sinauer, Sunderland. USA. Crawley, M.J., ed. (1997) Plant Ecology, 2nd edn. Blackwell Science, Oxford. Silvertown, J. & Charlesworth, D. (2001) Introduction to Plant Population Biology, 4th edn. Blackwell, London. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Course Coordinator | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Jacob Weiner, jw@life.ku.dk, Department of Agriculture and Ecology/Section of Botany, Phone: 35332822 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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