BIOL375-08S2 (C) Semester Two 2008

Freshwater Ecosystems

28 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 14 July 2008
End Date: Sunday, 16 November 2008
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Sunday, 27 July 2008
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Sunday, 12 October 2008

Description

Advanced theories and concepts of freshwater ecology and their practical application to current issues.

This course focuses on important current problems facing freshwater ecosystems and how ecological concepts and theories can help us understand and solve these problems. Students will be give practical skills and knowledge essential to employment as a freshwater ecologist.

There is a 5 day field trip to Cass and the West Coast, 1-5 September 2008.

Prerequisites

BIOL270 and BIOL209. For students enrolled before 2004, 44 points from PAMS204, BIOL270, FORE202, ZOOL202, BIOL210, ZOOL204, ZOOL205, BIOL211, ZOOL214, BIOL212

Restrictions

BIOL372, PAMS311/ZOOL311

Course Coordinator / Lecturer

Angus McIntosh

Lecturers

Paul Broady and Jonathan Harding

Lab Coordinator

Linda Gay Morris

Assessment

Assessment Due Date Percentage 
Major Report on Field Trip Research Project 25%
Short Field Trip Report 10%
Final Exam 60%
Literature Review 5%

Textbooks / Resources

Required Texts

Harding, Jon S. , New Zealand Hydrological Society., New Zealand Limnological Society; Freshwaters of New Zealand ; New Zealand Hydrological Society ;, 2004.

Recommended Reading

Begon, Michael. , Harper, John L., Townsend, Colin R; Ecology : individuals, populations, and communities ; 3rd ed; Blackwell Science, 1996.

Course links

Course Outline

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $1,247.00

International fee $5,751.00

* All fees are inclusive of NZ GST or any equivalent overseas tax, and do not include any programme level discount or additional course-related expenses.

For further information see School of Biological Sciences .

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