Universität Wien

300225 PP Stream Ecology (intermediale level) (2010S)

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

Vorbesprechung am 4.3.2010 um 10 Uhr im Seminarraum Ökologie. Seminare Di und Do 10.15 bis 12 Uhr im Seminarraum Ökologie; Freiland und Labor (Biozentrum). Eine Teilnahme an der Vorbesprechung ist trotz elektronischer Anmeldung wegen wichtiger Verlautbarungen erforderlich !

Registration/Deregistration

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. 15 participants
Language: German

Lecturers

Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N

  • Thursday 04.03. 10:15 - 12:00 Schreibraum/Seminarraum
  • Tuesday 09.03. 10:15 - 12:00 Schreibraum/Seminarraum
  • Thursday 11.03. 10:15 - 12:00 Schreibraum/Seminarraum
  • Tuesday 16.03. 10:15 - 12:00 Schreibraum/Seminarraum
  • Thursday 18.03. 10:15 - 12:00 Schreibraum/Seminarraum
  • Tuesday 23.03. 10:15 - 12:00 Schreibraum/Seminarraum
  • Thursday 25.03. 10:15 - 12:00 Schreibraum/Seminarraum
  • Tuesday 13.04. 10:15 - 12:00 Schreibraum/Seminarraum
  • Thursday 15.04. 10:15 - 12:00 Schreibraum/Seminarraum
  • Tuesday 20.04. 10:15 - 12:00 Schreibraum/Seminarraum
  • Thursday 22.04. 10:15 - 12:00 Schreibraum/Seminarraum
  • Tuesday 27.04. 10:15 - 12:00 Schreibraum/Seminarraum
  • Thursday 29.04. 10:15 - 12:00 Schreibraum/Seminarraum
  • Tuesday 04.05. 10:15 - 12:00 Schreibraum/Seminarraum
  • Thursday 06.05. 10:15 - 12:00 Schreibraum/Seminarraum
  • Tuesday 11.05. 10:15 - 12:00 Schreibraum/Seminarraum
  • Tuesday 18.05. 10:15 - 12:00 Schreibraum/Seminarraum
  • Thursday 20.05. 10:15 - 12:00 Schreibraum/Seminarraum
  • Thursday 27.05. 10:15 - 12:00 Schreibraum/Seminarraum
  • Tuesday 01.06. 10:15 - 12:00 Schreibraum/Seminarraum
  • Tuesday 08.06. 10:15 - 12:00 Schreibraum/Seminarraum
  • Thursday 10.06. 10:15 - 12:00 Schreibraum/Seminarraum
  • Tuesday 15.06. 10:15 - 12:00 Schreibraum/Seminarraum
  • Thursday 17.06. 10:15 - 12:00 Schreibraum/Seminarraum
  • Tuesday 22.06. 10:15 - 12:00 Schreibraum/Seminarraum
  • Thursday 24.06. 10:15 - 12:00 Schreibraum/Seminarraum
  • Tuesday 29.06. 10:15 - 12:00 Schreibraum/Seminarraum

Information

Aims, contents and method of the course

This field course focuses on advanced concepts in the ecology of low-order streams. It provides introductury lectures on stream ecology, longitudinal zonation, organismic drift, geochemistry and biofilm ecology which prepare a series of field trips at a third-order forest stream in the Wienerwald area. Team work will deal with the importance of catchment structures for the energy budget, retention, processing of leaf litter, fuctional feeding groups of macrozoobenthos, organismic drift and the role of the hyporheic zone. In the field, practical skills such as stream reconnaissance, hydological methodology, bed morphology and stream-catchment-interactions, among others, are trained. Team work is strongly encouraged. In the lab, data are processed and important working techniques are demonstrated.

Assessment and permitted materials

Attendance control, oral group presentation of project outcomes, finally written group protocols at the end of the course.

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

The participants are aware of the most important ecological principles acting in low-order streams and of the significance of stream-hyporheos and stream-catchment interactions. Students are able to perform stream reconnaissance and sample macrozoobenthos and drift and to interprete retention data. In addition, students are able to use the bioindication potential of stream biota.

Examination topics

Introductory lectures (powerpoint presentations), guided field work (mapping, equipment training, data collection) at a woodland stream and guided as well as unguided data analyses in the lab. Handouts are distributed at the start of the course.

Reading list

Allan, J. David, Castillo, María M.: Stream Ecology. Structure and function of running waters. 2nd ed., Springer.

Association in the course directory

BOE 10, BOE 11, BOE 12

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