Alternative Compulsory Module Group: Ecology (120 ECTS)

BOE 1 General Ecology (10 ECTS)

• 300024 VO Concepts in Ecology - Concepts in Ecology
• 300048 VO Ecology of the ecozones of the world

BOE 2 Physiological Principles of Ecology (5 ECTS)

BOE 3 Structure and Diversity of Plants (5 ECTS)

BOE 4 Animal Biodiversity (5 ECTS)

BOE 5 Diversity of Microorganisms (5 ECTS)

• 300317 VO Biodiversity and molecular ecology of microorganisms 1

BOE 6 Field Biology (5 ECTS)

BOE 7 Functional Ecology (10 ECTS)

BOE 8 Vegetation Ecology, Landscape Ecology, Population Ecology and Conservation Biology (10 ECTS)

• 300017 VO Vegetation Ecology and Landscape Ecology
• 300341 VO Conservation Biology and Landscape Conservation

BOE 9 Microbial Ecology and Ecogenetics (10 ECTS)

• 300309 VO Microbial genome plasticity
• 300311 VO Bioinformatics for the analysis of microbial genomes, metagenomes and metatranscriptomes

BOE 10 Limnology, Oceanography and Ecosystem Ecology (10 ECTS)

• 300027 VO Ecosystem Ecology and Biogeochemistry
• 300496 VO Marine Science

BOE 11 Biological Elective Subjects (10 ECTS)

• 300004 UE Exercise to Palaeodiversity of Invertebrates
• 300013 VO Introduction to Animal Behavior
• 300025 VO Lower plant diversity and phylogeny
• 300043 VO [ en ] Introduction to Cognitive Biology
• 300053 VO Virtual Anthropology - Introduction into digital 3D-methods
• 300056 UE Plant Anatomy - in parallel courses
• 300078 VO Hominid Evolution
• 300090 VO Introduction to the native fauna and their habitat
• 300100 VO Palaeodiversity of Invertebrates
• 300161 VO Microcosmos evolution
• 300215 VO Introduction to Evolutionary Medicine
• 300227 VO Primatology
• 300231 VO Introduction in Social Biology
• 300248 VO Cell Biology of Plants - Structure and Function of the Plant Cell
• 300289 VO Introduction Forensic Anthropology
• 300296 VO Mammal evolution - selected topics
• 300299 VU [ en ] Introductory Morphometrics
• 300327 VO Introduction into Human Ethology
• 300343 VO [ en ] Genome structure and evolution
• 300380 EX Zoological basic excursions - Excursions in autumn and winter
• 300385 VO Human Anatomy - Osteology and Arthrology - Einführung in die Anatomie des Menschen
• 300426 VO Introduction into Human Ecology - Introduction into Human Ecology
• 300431 VO [ de en ] Evolution and Human Organization
• 300476 VO Animal Physiology II: Nerves, Muscles, Senses
• 300483 UE Palaeontological Working Methods - Laboratory
• 300492 VO Human Anatomy 2 - Organ Morphology
• 300545 UE Fungal diversity in their habitats
• 300648 VO [ en ] Animal Physiology I: Energy, Respiration, Homeostasis
• 301083 VO [ en ] Molecular Developmental Biology of plants
• 301210 VO General and Molecular Microbiology I
• 301211 VO General and Molecular Microbiology II
• 301212 VO Plant Molecular Biology I - Genetics and cellorganisation
• 301260 VO [ en ] Immunology and Cellular Microbiology, Part A
• 301284 VO Biochemistry
• 301324 VO Organic Chemistry for Molecular biology
• 301344 VO [ en ] Immunology and Cellular Microbiology, Part B
• 301350 VO Quantitative methods in molekularbiology
• 301370 VU [ de en ] Physical Chemistry - Physical Chemistry for Molecular Biologists
• 301590 VU Fundamental Bioinformatics
• 301609 VO [ de en ] Molecular Developmental Biology
• 301617 VO+SE Structural Biology I - The Chemistry of Structural Biology
• 301620 VO [ en ] Analytical Chemistry 2 for Biologists - Biophysical Methods for Biological Macromolecules
• 301628 VO Mathematics for Molecular Biologists

BOE 12 Project Course (10 ECTS)

• 300092 UE [ de en ] Introduction to Coral Reef Biology
• 300099 UE [ de en ] Costa Rica: From bio- to chemodiversity and natural products in tropical rain forests
• 300106 UE DNA Barcoding - A new approach to species identification in ecology and biodiversity research
• 300220 UE [ de en ] Algal culturing techniques and ecophysiological experiments
• 300286 UE Fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) - Identification of uncultured microorganisms
• 300358 UE Metabolomics
• 300395 UE Chemodiversity of Plants - Evolution, ecology, function

BOE 13 Bachelor’s Thesis (10 ECTS)

• 300182 PP Case studies on the ecology and biodiversity of tropical vertebrates - in a lowland rainforest in Costa Rica
• 300277 PP Functional Ecology of Carnivorous Plants - Structure and functioning of the traps and their glands
• 300279 PP Environmental stress on the cellular level - How cells react to external impacts
• 300365 PP Survey of bird communities in city parks