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300424 SE+UE Field course in functional ecology (2024S)

Biodiversity & Landuse in grassland ecosystems

10.00 ECTS (6.00 SWS), SPL 30 - Biologie
Continuous assessment of course work

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Note: The time of your registration within the registration period has no effect on the allocation of places (no first come, first served).

Details

max. 16 participants
Language: German

Lecturers

Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N

The first meeting in March serves as initial date to finalize the list of participants and solve organisational issues. Participation mandatory, please organize a representative if you cannot join this meeting. Field work will take place in NP Neusiedler See, based in Illmitz, from 03 June to 07 June 2024. A preparatory seminar will be held in April (participation mandatory, exact timing and venue will be announced)

  • Thursday 07.03. 09:45 - 11:15 Hörsaal (Fakultätszentrum für Biodiversität) Rennweg EG
  • Thursday 11.04. 15:00 - 18:00 Hörsaal (Fakultätszentrum für Biodiversität) Rennweg EG

Information

Aims, contents and method of the course

This field course aims at analysing the interaction of vegetation, fauna (diurnal Lepidoptera) and land management in grassland ecosystems in the NP Lake Neusiedl. We will compare pastures, meadows and fallows with repect to biodiversity and conservation value. Students work together in small groups. Topics include (a) responses of vegetation to land-use, (b) land-use effects on butterflies and diurnal moths and interdependencies between insects and vegetation. The course offers acquiring basic knowledge in terrestrial ecological field methods (vegetation relevés, insect surveys), followed by meetings with the group supervisors to (statistically) analyse the collected data at the University. These meetings will be held in August and September.

Assessment and permitted materials

Written reports on the topics of the different working groups, based on own data collected during field work and their evaluation, in connection with pertinent scientific literature. We expect a report in the usual form of a scientific paper. Reports are typically between 15-40 pages DINA4, depending on the number of graphs, tables and appendices. Language: German or optionally English.

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

written report (80 %), active participation in field course and during data evaluation (20 %). Maximum one day of absence during field work.

Examination topics

Contents of introductory seminars and presentations during the field course, results from own field work and their integration into an adequate scientific context by consulting further scientific literature

Reading list

I. Korner et al. (2008). Abhandlungen der Zool.-Bot. Gesellschaft Österreich 37: 1-84.
K. Fiedler et al. (2017). Journal of Insect Conservation 21(2): 277-285.

Association in the course directory

BOE 7

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