Alternative Compulsory Module Group: Ecology (120 ECTS)

BOE 1 General Ecology (10 ECTS)

BOE 2 Physiological Principles of Ecology (5 ECTS)

• 300495 VO ( REMOTE ) Ecophysiology
• 300725 VO Ecophysiology and Genetics of Microorganisms

BOE 3 Structure and Diversity of Plants (5 ECTS)

• 300601 UE ( ON-SITE ) Diversity and systematics of plants and fungi for ecologists - Exercise in three parallel courses

BOE 4 Animal Biodiversity (5 ECTS)

• 300101 UE ( MIXED ) Practical training in determination native animals - Morphology, systematics and diversity of Central European animals

BOE 5 Diversity of Microorganisms (5 ECTS)

• 300609 VO ( REMOTE ) Biodiversity and molecular Ecology of Micororganisms 2

BOE 6 Field Biology (5 ECTS)

• 300301 UE Central European habitat types - in mehreren Parallelen

BOE 7 Functional Ecology (10 ECTS)

• 300365 SE+UE Course in functional ecology - Biodiversity and ecosystem functions at heavily and slightly impacted reaches of the Wien River
• 300423 SE+UE ( REMOTE ) Field course in functional ecology - biodiversity and ecosystem fuctions
• 300424 SE+UE ( ON-SITE ) Field course in functional ecology - Biodiversity & Landuse in grassland ecosystems

BOE 8 Vegetation Ecology, Landscape Ecology, Population Ecology and Conservation Biology (10 ECTS)

• 300379 VO ( REMOTE ) Population and community ecology

BOE 9 Microbial Ecology and Ecogenetics (10 ECTS)

• 300178 VO ( REMOTE ) Microbial communities

BOE 10 Limnology, Oceanography and Ecosystem Ecology (10 ECTS)

• 300026 VO [ de en ] Fundamentals in Limnology

BOE 11 Biological Elective Subjects (10 ECTS)

• 300003 VO ( ON-SITE ) Palaeodiversity of plants
• 300011 UE ( ON-SITE ) Body plans of anmials, part 2
• 300023 VO ( REMOTE ) Higher Plant diversity and phylogeny
• 300036 VO [ en ] ( REMOTE ) Molecular Evolution
• 300045 EX Flora and fauna of the March river flood plains - Seasonal changes
• 300096 EX ( ON-SITE ) Zoological basic excursions - (parallel courses)
• 300106 VO ( REMOTE ) Human physiology
• 300147 UE ( ON-SITE ) Flowers: Structure, Function and Diversity
• 300187 VO ( REMOTE ) Human Neuroanatomy
• 300191 VO ( REMOTE ) Anatomy of the skull
• 300220 VO Palaeoecology
• 300269 VO Palaeobiogeography
• 300292 UE ( ON-SITE ) Diversity and Ecology of Vascular Plants
• 300386 UE Cells in the light microscope
• 300420 VO ( REMOTE ) Populationanthropoloy and Demography
• 300548 VO ( REMOTE ) Social-biological aspects of the human-animal interaction
• 300616 UE ( REMOTE ) Life Cycles of Plants
• 301322 VO ( REMOTE ) Neurobiology

BOE 12 Advanced Practical Course (10 ECTS)

• 300068 UE ( ON-SITE ) Diversity of marine zooplankton and the evolution of animal life cycles
• 300094 UE [ en ] Proteomics in System Biology
• 300115 UE [ de en ] ( ON-SITE ) DNA Barcoding - A new approach to species identification in ecology and biodiversity research
• 300138 UE ( ON-SITE ) Ascertaining major components of the Austrian flora in the field
• 300165 UE [ de en ] Algae - their world explored
• 300176 UE [ de en ] ( ON-SITE ) Diversity and functional attributes of biological communities - along enviromental gradients
• 300199 UE [ de en ] ( ON-SITE ) Introduction to the fauna and flora of marine habitats
• 300307 UE [ en ] ( MIXED ) Experimental evolutionary biology
• 300648 UE [ en ] ( ON-SITE ) Molecular and cytogenetic tools in ecology & evolution

BOE 13 Bachelor’s Thesis (10 ECTS)

• 300021 PP ( ON-SITE ) Vegetation- and Landscape ecology - Monitoring in protected areas
• 300043 PP [ en ] ( REMOTE ) Script Programming in genome analysis - common script languages for the analysis of sequence data
• 300048 PP Heavy metal stress: ecology of organisms - Ecology of organisms from heavy metal habitats: Strategies to cope with stress
• 300076 PP ( ON-SITE ) Diversity-ecology-functional relationships among vascular plants and animals in the Mediterr. biome
• 300122 PP [ en ] Practical course: Current topics in Bio-Oceanography: Role of Plastics in the Ocean - a two weeks course at a marine station in the Mediterranean Sea
• 300136 PP ( ON-SITE ) Population biology of native amphibians
• 300172 PP Groundwater ecology
• 300213 PP [ en ] ( ON-SITE ) Biodiversity and Ecology of the Black Sea
• 300221 PP ( ON-SITE ) Diversity and niche segregation of birds along an elevational gradient in the eastern Alps
• 300223 PP ( ON-SITE ) Animal communities of Central European floodplain forests: - Effects of flooding events and grassland management