Module EES Excursion
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Module P9: EES Field course
- Coordinator: Susanne Foitzik
- ECTS points: 3
- Description: Students will participate in an interdiciplinary one-week excursion. They will investigate an ecosystem from different angles and carry out small scientific projects.
- Goals: In this module, students will apply theoretical knowledge aquired in courses of the Master program to ecosystem study. In addition they are introduced to a number of field methods and to the identification of relevant taxa.
Lehrveranstaltung P9.1: EES Field course Praktikum
- Inhalte:
The excursion will allow a comprehensive, interdisciplinary approach to a habitat (e.g., high alpine valleys or the North Sea). It will include small field projects followed by a thorough statistical analysis of the data. Zoological, botanical and fungal systematics, ecology and human impact will be taught concurrently to give a comprehensive understanding of the ecological selection pressures and evolutionary interactions between species. After a multi-day introduction to the selected habitat, students will work in groups on small research questions. The collected data will be analysed statistically following the excursion. Results of the small research projects will be presented in short talks and put into context of one another.
- Lernziele:
Students get an interdisciplinary introduction into a natural habitat including zoological, botanical and fungal systematics, ecology and human impact.
- Unterrichtsform: Praktikum
- ECTS points: 3
Lehrveranstaltung P9.2: EES Field course Seminar
- Contents: In this seminar, students will read articles and book chapters that will introduce them to the specific habitat which they will visit in the excursion.
- Goals: The goal of this seminar is that students are well prepared for the excursion.
- Unterrichtsform: Seminar
- ECTS points: 1
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