| Inst. for Jordbrug og Økologi | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| English title | Plants in Populations, Communities and Ecosystems | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Tidligst mulig placering | Bachelor 3. år til Kandidat 1.år | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Varighed | En blok | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Pointværdi | 7.5 (ECTS) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Kursustype | Fælleskursus | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Eksamen | Løbende eksamen skriftlig og mundtlig eksamen kun visse hjælpemidler Beskrivelse af eksamen: one presentation, one report (individual), three smaller written exams. Vægtning: report 30%, written exams 60%, presentation 10% 7-trinsskala, intern censur | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Forudsætninger for indstilling til eksamen | Participation in min. 75% of course activities | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Rammer for undervisning | lectures 35% student seminars and discussions 35% exercises and excursions 30% | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Blokplacering | Block 4 Ugestruktur: A | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Undervisningssprog | Engelsk | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Anbefalede forudsætninger | - 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, | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Begrænset deltagerantal | None | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Kursusindhold | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| - 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 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Lectures, exercises and excursions, student presentations followed by student-led discussions, teacher-led discussions of articles, group work | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Students in the course will become familiar with all the major questions and methods in modern plant ecology. These include knowledge of the factors that determine the abundance and distribution of plants, and how these factors can be investigated scientifically, and how current knowledge can be applied to solve applied problems. Students will obtain an understanding how modern ecological science is done with plants, starting with observation and natural history, description of patterns, building of models and theories, and making and testing of hypotheses. Knowledge - Understand and apply current "state of the art" scientific knowledge about the factors that determine the abundance and distribution of plants, including, abiotic factors such as climate and biotic factors such as competition, herbivory, parasitism. - Be aware of the difference between scientific and ethical issues in management of plant populations and communities, and their overlap Skills - Describe plant populations and communities quantitatively - Use plant ecological theories to develop and test hypotheses - Apply ecological principles to solve applied problems in ecosystem management and plant production - Judge alternative solutions to applied problems concerning plant populations and communities - Use demographic methods to analyze the condition of plant populations Competences - Understand and criticize research in all major areas of plant ecology - Develop hypotheses to explain the patterns in plant distribution and abundance - Discuss both the scientific and ethical aspect of applied problems concerning plant populations and communities | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Litteraturhenvisninger | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Gurevitch, J., Scheiner, S.M., & Fox, G.A. (2006) The ecology of Plants. 2nd Edition, 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. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Kursusansvarlig | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Jacob Weiner, jw@life.ku.dk, Institut for Jordbrug og Økologi/Faggruppe Botanik, Tlf: 35332822 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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