BIOL375-25S2 (C) Semester Two 2025

Freshwater Ecosystems

15 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 14 July 2025
End Date: Sunday, 9 November 2025
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Sunday, 27 July 2025
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Sunday, 28 September 2025

Description

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

Prerequisites

BIOL209 and either (1) BIOL270 or (2) BIOL274 and BIOL275

Assessment

Assessment Due Date Percentage 
Fieldwork notes 20%
Major report 30%
Online quizzes 15%
Final test 35%

Textbooks / Resources

Recommended Reading

Harding, Jon S. , New Zealand Hydrological Society., New Zealand Limnological Society; Freshwaters of New Zealand ; New Zealand Hydrological Society ; New Zealand Limnological Society, 2004 ((This is available as a pdf – free from http://www.biol.canterbury.ac.nz/ferg/educate.shtml)).

Jellyman, Phillip G. et al; Advances in New Zealand freshwater science ; [Updated edition]; New Zealand Hydrological Society : New Zealand Limnological Society, 2016 (See http://freshwater.science.org.nz).

Smith, T. M. , Smith, Leo Robert; Elements of ecology ; 9th edition; Pearson, 2015.

Course links

Library portal

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $1,232.00

International fee $5,806.00

* 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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