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BI3037

Ferskvannsøkologi

Velg studieår
Studiepoeng 7,5
Nivå Høyere grads nivå
Undervisningsstart Høst 2024
Varighet 1 semester
Undervisningsspråk Engelsk
Sted Trondheim
Vurderingsordning Skriftlig skoleeksamen

Om

Om emnet

Faglig innhold

The course covers properties of water and the significance of these properties for the structuring of plants and animals on the individual-, population- and community level. The course covers spatial and temporal variation in natural ecosystems, including effects of human activity and climate change. Important topics include an overview over the most important groups of organism, community structure, and control of communities through top-down (predator control) and bottom-up mechanisms (available food).

Læringsutbytte

KNOWLEDGE:

  • Basic limnology and water quality.
  • Overview of major functional groups of organisms in freshwater
  • Effects of land use, climate change and other anthropogenic sources of influence on freshwater ecosystems
  • Effects of abiotic factors on eco-physiology and life history of freshwater organisms
  • Effects of abiotic factors on trophic interactions, with emphasis on competition, predation and parasitism
  • Phenotypic responses to trophic interactions
  • The role of bottom-up vs. top-down regulation in freshwater food webs

SKILLS AQUIRED:

  • Critical evaluation of primary literature
  • Applying key methods for fish and zooplankton surveys
  • Use of the program R for analyses of data
  • Conducting laboratory experiments using aquatic organisms
  • Analysing and reporting data from lab- and field studies of aquatic organisms

GENERAL COMPETENCE:

  • The course gives a special competence linked to environmental problems in freshwater and the regulatory mechanisms for management of freshwater

Læringsformer og aktiviteter

Lectures: 18 hours

Field course: 3 days

Lab experiments : 10 hours

Seminars: 24 hours

Experimental work: 20 hours

Analyzing and reporting experimental results: 10 hours

Total expected workload: ca. 225 hours

Obligatoriske aktiviteter

  • Field Report
  • Lab Report

Mer om vurdering

Final exam counts for 100% of the total grade of the course. Only students with approved mandatory activities will be allowed to take the exam.

Retake of the final exam for improvement of grade can be done the following semester. In this case, the written exam can be changed to an oral exam.

Mandatory activities from previous semester may be approved by the department.

Studiepoengreduksjon

Emnekode Reduksjon Fra
BI2035 7 sp Høst 2011
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Fagområder

  • Biodiversitet
  • Biologi
  • Zoologi
  • Økologi

Kontaktinformasjon

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Faglærere

Ansvarlig enhet

Institutt for biologi