Alternative Compulsory Module Group: Ecology (120 ECTS)

BOE 1 General Ecology (10 ECTS)

BOE 2 Physiological Principles of Ecology (5 ECTS)

• 300495 VO Ecophysiology
• 300725 VO Ecophysiology and Genetics of Microorganisms

BOE 3 Structure and Diversity of Plants (5 ECTS)

• 300601 UE Diversity, systematics and ecology of algae, plants and fungi for ecologists - Exercise in three parallel courses

BOE 4 Animal Biodiversity (5 ECTS)

• 300101 UE Practical training in determination native animals - Morphology, systematics and diversity of Central European animals

BOE 5 Diversity of Microorganisms (5 ECTS)

• 300609 VO Biodiversity and molecular Ecology of Micororganisms 2

BOE 6 Field Biology (5 ECTS)

• 300301 UE Central European habitat types - in mehreren Parallelen

BOE 7 Functional Ecology (10 ECTS)

• 300365 SE+UE Course in functional ecology - Biodiversity and ecosystem functions at heavily and slightly impacted reaches of the Wien River
• 300423 SE+UE Field course in functional ecology - biodiversity and ecosystem fuctions
• 300424 SE+UE Field course in functional ecology - Biodiversity & Landuse in grassland ecosystems

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

• 300379 VO Population and community ecology

BOE 9 Microbial Ecology and Ecogenetics (10 ECTS)

• 300045 VO Bioinformatics for the analysis of microbial genomes, metagenomes and metatranscriptomes
• 300178 VO Microbial communities

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

• 300027 VO [ de en ] Fundamentals in Limnology

BOE 11 Biological Elective Subjects (10 ECTS)

• 300003 VO Palaeodiversity of plants
• 300012 UE Body plans of anmials, part 2
• 300022 UE Exercises Palaeodiversity of plants
• 300023 VO Higher Plant diversity and phylogeny
• 300036 VO [ en ] Molecular Evolution
• 300096 EX Zoological basic excursions - (parallel courses)
• 300106 VO ( MIXED ) Human physiology
• 300147 UE Flowers: Structure, Function and Diversity
• 300187 VO ( REMOTE ) Human Neuroanatomy
• 300191 VO ( MIXED ) Anatomy of the skull
• 300220 VO Palaeoecology
• 300222 VO [ en ] Scientific methods and applications in human evolution
• 300269 VO Palaeobiogeography
• 300292 UE Diversity and Ecology of Vascular Plants
• 300386 UE Cells in the light microscope
• 300420 VO Populationanthropoloy and Demography
• 300616 UE Life Cycles of Plants
• 300698 UE [ de en ] Palaeontological field methods
• 301322 VO Neurobiology

BOE 12 Advanced Practical Course (10 ECTS)

• 300068 UE [ de en ] Diversity of marine zooplankton and the evolution of animal life cycles
• 300094 UE [ en ] Proteomics in Systems Biology
• 300115 UE DNA Barcoding - A new approach to species identification in ecology and biodiversity research
• 300138 UE ( REMOTE ) Ascertaining major components of the Austrian flora in the field
• 300165 UE [ de en ] Algae - their world explored
• 300169 UE [ de en ] Ecology, Anatomy and Physiology of Carnivorous Plants and their traps
• 300176 UE [ de en ] Diversity and functional attributes of biological communities - along enviromental gradients
• 300199 UE [ de en ] Introduction to the fauna and flora of marine habitats
• 300205 UE [ en ] Soil Ecology and Biogeochemistry
• 300334 UE Field course "Amphibian Ecology"
• 300648 UE [ en ] Molecular and cytogenetic tools in ecology & evolution

BOE 13 Bachelor’s Thesis (10 ECTS)

• 300078 PP Dry grassland habitats : Species, populations, conservation, and management
• 300172 PP Groundwater ecology
• 300182 PP Animal communities of Central European floodplain forests: - Effects of flooding events and grassland management
• 300186 PP [ de en ] Dipping into ecological research
• 300204 PP Diversity-ecology-functional relationships among vascular plants and animals in the Mediterr. biome
• 300213 PP [ en ] Biodiversity and Ecology of the Black Sea