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1. Botany, Faculty of Science (v4, p176) : Next:606-311 | Prev:606-309
Credit points: 11.5
Coordinator: Dr A. Drinnan and Dr P. Minchin
Prerequisite: Botany 606-202
Contact: 68 hours total; 36 hours fieldwork, 8 hours lectures, 18 hours practicals
Timetable: First semester
Objectives:
To provide students with:
- skills for identification and description of plants and plant communities in the field;
- skills for collection, cataloguing and preserving plant specimens;
- knowledge of Australian flora
Content:
Taxonomy of the Australian flora; field identification of major families and genera of plants and algae; assessing population variation; collection and pressing of dry and wet speciments; mounting and cataloguing speciments; curatorial skills'; nomenclature; using computer-based identification systems; databases.Techniques for description and classification of vegetation - structural types, floristing associations, measures of abundance (cover, density, basal area, biomass), sampling techniques (quadrats, line transects, plotless methods), sampling scale and species-area relationships, profile diagrams, life-form spectra.
The course consists of 6 days of fieldwork (one 5 day excursion, one 1 day excursion) and three days of lectures and practicals (8 lectures, 18 hours practicals), to be offered in the first two weeks of February.
Assessment:
Submit a curated collection of up to 20 plants (25%); a written report of a maximum of 1,000 words (25%); practical examination of 3 hours duration at the end of the course (50%).
1. Botany, Faculty of Science (v4, p176) : Next:606-311 | Prev:606-309
2. Botany, Faculty of Educ(Parkville) (v5, p78) : Next:606-311 | Prev:606-308
Credit points: 11.5
Coordinator: Dr A. Drinnan and Dr P. Minchin.
Prerequisite: Botany 606-202
Contact: 68 hours total; 36 hours fieldwork, 8 hours lectures, 18 hours practicals
Timetable: First semester.
Objectives:
To provide students with:
- skills for identification and description of plants and plant communities in the field;
- skills for collection, cataloguing and preserving plant specimens;
- knowledge of Australian flora
Content:
Taxonomy of the Australian flora; field identification of major families and genera of plants and algae; assessing population variation; collection and pressing of dry and wet speciments; mounting and cataloguing speciments; curatorial skills'; nomenclature; using computer-based identification systems; databases.Techniques for description and classification of vegetation - structural types, floristing associations, measures of abundance (cover, density, basal area, biomass), sampling techniques (quadrats, line transects, plotless methods), sampling scale and species-area relationships, profile diagrams, life-form spectra.
The course consists of 6 days of fieldwork (one 5 day excursion, one 1 day excursion) and three days of lectures and practicals (8 lectures, 18 hours practicals), to be offered in the first two weeks of February.
Assessment:
A curated collection of up to 20 plants (25 per cent); a written report of a maximum of 1,000 words (25 per cent); practical examination of 3 hours duration at the end of the course (50 per cent).
* Note that ASSESSMENT differs from the maintainer's version above. A log of variations is available.
2. Botany, Faculty of Educ(Parkville) (v5, p78) : Next:606-311 | Prev:606-308
Status: Official 1996 Date created: Oct 9 1995 Last modified: Oct 9 1995 Authorised by: Academic Registrar Email enquiries: Course_Information@registrar.unimelb.edu.au
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