211-263 Forest Ecology

Availability

Credit Points

HECS Band

Coordinator

Prerequisites

211-264 Field Studies and Dendrology, 202-103 Biology for Land and Food Resources, 600-142 Genetics and the Evolution of Life.

Semester

Contact

Subject Description

On completion of this unit, students should be:

• competent in categorizing Australian vegetation on both a structural and a floristic basis;

• identifying the major components of the Australian flora using keys;

• and familiar with basic ecological concepts from the organisational levels of the organism through to the biosphere, particularly in relation to forests.

Content includes:

• plant systematics, taxonomy and nomenclature; construction and use of keys; forest ecology;

• and the environment, the organism, the population, the community, the ecosystem, the biosphere.

Assessment

One three-hour examination (50%), a practical test (10%) and two practical assignments equivalent to 2500 words (each worth 20%).

Prescribed Texts

• Krebs, C., Ecology. 1985 Academic Press.
• Clarke, I. & Lee, H., Name that Flower. MUP, 1987.