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Valid for year : 2004
 
NBIB08 Ecology, 7,5 ECTS credits.
/Ekologi/

For:   Bio   BKM   FRIST  

 

Prel. scheduled hours: 68
Rec. self-study hours: 132

  Area of Education: Science

Subject area: Biology

  Advancement level (A-D): B

Aim:
To provide an understanding of basic ecological concepts and theories. The course also aims at an insight and exercise in the scientific method of working: to plan, carry out, evaluate and account for investigations that illustrate some current problems in ecology.

Prerequisites: (valid for students admitted to programmes within which the course is offered)
Chemistry 1, 20p as well as courses according Biology 1, 20p (or comparable courses). Recommendation: Floristics & Faunistics 5p.

Note: Admission requirements for non-programme students usually also include admission requirements for the programme and threshhold requirements for progression within the programme, or corresponding.

Organisation:
Lectures, seminars and computer simulations of ecological models. A small scientific investigation (team-work) is also carried out during the course. Seminars, computer simulations and field and laboratory experiments/work in connection with the scientific investigation (team-work) are compulsory.

Course contents:
The course provides knowledge about basic ecological concepts and theories. The relations of individual organisms to their environment. Evolutionary ecology. The structure and dynamics of populations and ecological communities. Conservation Biology. Turnover of energy and nutrients in ecosystems.

Course literature:
Krebs, C.J. 2001. Ecology (5th ed.). Benjamin Cumming.

Examination:
Written examination
Approved laboratory course
3 p
2 p
 



Course language is Swedish.
Department offering the course: IFM.
Director of Studies: Agneta Johansson
Examiner: Kjell Carlsson
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Last updated: 07/07/2004