6 ECTS credits
172 h study time

Offer 1 with catalog number 4024131DNR for all students in the 1st semester at a (D) Master - preliminary level.

Semester
1st semester
Enrollment based on exam contract
Impossible
Grading method
Grading (scale from 0 to 20)
Can retake in second session
Yes
Enrollment Requirements
This course is only open to students enrolled in the programme Master Biology : Erasmus Mundus Joint Master Degree in Tropical Biodiversity and Ecosystems.
Taught in
English
Partnership Agreement
Under interuniversity agreement for degree program
Faculty
Faculteit Wetenschappen en Bio-ingenieurswetensch.
Department
Biology
External partners
Università degli Studi di Firenze
Educational team
Decaan WE (course titular)
Activities and contact hours
48 contact hours Lecture
6 contact hours Seminar, Exercises or Practicals
Course Content

Learn the most important tropical plant families, their morphological features, ecology, adaptations in different tropical areas of the world, interactions between plants and animals.

Table of contents: 1) General plant morphology ; 2) Ecological adaptations in a Tropical environments ; 3) Tropical biogeography ; 3-6) Paleotropical plant families ; 7-10) Neotropical plant families ; 11) Specific cases of study in tropical plant systematics ; 12) Nomenclature.

Additional info

Textbooks on Tropical Botany (Paleo- and Neo-tropical areas of the world) are available at the Tropical Herbarium Library and at the Botanical Library of the Department of Evolutionary Biology. Consultation of international journals are recommended by free access on internet under the teacher’s suggestions. Students will be asked to prepare a topic of their choice and present it to the other students within a “journal club” seminar.

Learning Outcomes

Algemene Competenties

Use of identification keys of Flora. Knowledge of the general tropical plant diversity and principles of the collecting data and herbarium management.

Grading

The final grade is composed based on the following categories:
Other Exam determines 100% of the final mark.

Within the Other Exam category, the following assignments need to be completed:

  • Other Exam with a relative weight of 1 which comprises 100% of the final mark.

Additional info regarding evaluation

Oral presentation and assessment : 100%

Allowed unsatisfactory mark
The supplementary Teaching and Examination Regulations of your faculty stipulate whether an allowed unsatisfactory mark for this programme unit is permitted.

Academic context

This offer is part of the following study plans:
Master of Biology: AR Erasmus Mundus Joint Master Degree in Tropical Biodiversity and Ecosystems