207-275 Forest Ecology

202-103 Biology for Land and Food Resources, 600-142 Genetics and the Evolution of Life.

207-276 Field Studies and Dendrology.

On completion of this unit, students should be:

• competent in categorising 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;

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

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

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