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Module: Biological Signals in Ecosystems (2101-240)

Note: Last updated September 2019. Current module catalog in HohCampus.

This module not offered anymore!

Persons:
  • Prof. Dr. Manfred Küppers (verantwortlich)
Degree Program:
Prerequisites for Attendance:

Botanische und ökologische Veranstaltungen bis zum 4. Fachsemester

Sprache:
German/English
ECTS:
6 credits
Frequency:
every winter semester
Length of the Module:
blocked
Compulsory assignment:
Regular and active participation
Module examination:
Presentation, oral exam
Workload:

56 h presence + 124 h personal contribution = 180 h workload

Professional competences:

Students learn basics and methods in vegetation and climate history since the last Pleistocene as well as history and development of cultivated plants.
- Study generation of proxy data for reconstructing climate and environmental parameters and study selected primary and secondary literature sources.
Results will be presented in seminar presentations.
- Apply methods for reconstructing landscape and vegetation dynamics and development.

Comments:

Maximum number of participants: 12

Courses

Code Title Type Bindingness Course catalogue
2101-241 Vegetation and Climate History on Biological Signals lecture compulsory
2101-242 Seminar to Vegetation and Climate History seminar compulsory
2101-243 Exercises to Vegetation and Climate History (with Dendrochronology, Palynology, Archaeobotany) exercise compulsory