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Note: Credit cannot be obtained for both this subject and 121-339 or Faculty of Arts subjects 121-340, 121-341.
Credit points: 25
Coordinator: Assoc. Prof. Neal Enright & Dr Barbara Downes
Prerequisite: Any one of the following; 121-213/313 Plants, People and Environment; 606-204 Plant Ecology, 654-204/214 Animal Ecology or permission of the Subject Coordinators.
Contact: 39 lectures (3 per week), 39 hours of laboratories (3 hours per week), 36 hours (6 days) of fieldwork
Timetable: Second semester
Objectives:
Students completing this subject should:
- Understand the major concepts of the species, succession, climax and diversity, as they apply to plant and animal communities;
- Understand the major role which natural disturbance, on different spatial and temporal scales, plays in the dynamic behaviour of communities and populations;
- Understand the concepts, aims and developing methodologies associated with the emerging fields of landscape ecology and restoration ecology;
- Be able to apply basic field, laboratory and computer methods for community and population description and analysis.
Content:
Concepts in plant and animal biogeography; island biogeography; succession theory; diversity theory; natural disturbance regimes and the dynamics of communities and populations. Applications to: island floras and faunas; nature reserves; fire ecology and management; forest ecosystems. Anthropogenic disturbance; landscape ecology; restoration ecology.
Assessment:
One 2-hour final examination (40% of final grade), 13 weekly laboratory exercises (30% of final grade), a 3,000 word field report (20% of final grade), seminar work (10% of final grade).
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Handbook 1996 : Faculty of Science (Volume 4 page 193)
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