450010 VU Stratigraphic Paleoecology - Principles and applications (PI) (2020S)
Continuous assessment of course work
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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).
- Registration is open from We 12.02.2020 10:00 to We 26.02.2020 23:59
- Registration is open from Mo 02.03.2020 10:00 to Mo 16.03.2020 23:59
- Deregistration possible until Th 30.04.2020 23:59
Details
max. 20 participants
Language: German
Lecturers
Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N
Location: Übungssaal 2A225, Geocentre, UZAII
Tuesday, 9-12h
3, 17, 31 March,
14, 28 April,
12, 26 May,
11, 25 June
- Tuesday 12.05. 09:00 - 13:00 Seminarraum Paläontologie 2B311 3.OG UZA II
- Tuesday 26.05. 09:00 - 13:00 Seminarraum Paläontologie 2B311 3.OG UZA II
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Aims, contents and method of the course
This course will cover topics related to incompleteness and temporal resolution in the stratigraphic record and their effects on paleoecological patterns; effects of bioturbation on stratigraphic patterns; taphonomic pathways and taphonomic clock; principles of age dating and estimation of sediment-accumulation rates; assessments of comparisons of living assemblages with surface death assemblages and subsurface core assemblages; detecting analogue and non-analogue communities in the fossil record; comparing present-day crisis with Phanerozoic mass extinctions; and effects of warming, acidification, hypoxia on body size; and applications with regional examples.
Assessment and permitted materials
Students will be required to find a sediment-core or outcrop-based dataset (published in paleobiological or oceanographic repositories or own study) that has paleoecological, geochronological and stratigraphic framework, and assess the effects of stratigraphy on historical changes in composition, diversity or other ecological aspects in a written report.
Minimum requirements and assessment criteria
Examination topics
Reading list
Association in the course directory
WZB (Biologie)
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