859643 SE+UE Project Study "Stream Ecology" (2004S)

This field course focusses on advanced concepts in running water ecology. 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. At this site practical skills such as stream reconnaissance, hydological methodology (propellermeter handling, velocity-area method, Statzner hemispheres, gauges, hydraulic stress parameters), sedimentology, map work, evaluation of descriptive catchment characteristics, 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 (e.g. various methods of grain analysis) are demonstrated.
Evaluation: written summary.