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Handbook 1997 : Faculty of Science : Botany

606-310 Field Botany

Availability:

This subject is offered full-time over the first two weeks of February.

Credit Points:

11.5

Coordinator:

Dr A. Drinnan and Dr P. Minchin

Prerequisite/s:

Botany 606-202.

Timetable:

Summer semester

Contact:

68 hours total; 36 hours fieldwork (one 5-day excursion and one 1-day excursion), 8 hours lectures, 18 hours practicals

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 specimens; mounting and cataloguing specimens; curatorial skills; nomenclature; using computer-based identification systems; databases.

Techniques for description and classification of vegetation - structural types, floristic 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.

Assessment:

Submit a curated collection of up to 20 plants; a written report of a maximum of 1000 words and a 3-hour practical examination at the end of the subject.
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