3 ECTS credits
90 h study time
Offer 1 with catalog number 4018763DNR for all students in the 1st semester at a (D) Master - preliminary level.
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.
Course Material, text books and further reading :
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.
Please consult the course descriptions on the TROPIMUNDO website for the most completed and updated course descriptions.
Course Objectives : Learn the most important tropical plant families, their morphological features, ecology, adaptations in different tropical areas of the world, interactions between plants and animals.
Learning Outcomes : please note the general comment on learning outcomes
Education level: Basic Ecosystem focus: Plant Biological level: Organism
Use of identification keys of Flora. Knowledge of the general tropical plant diversity and principles of the collecting data and herbarium management.
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:
Exam : Oral (presentation & assesment)
2ndsession : oral or written exam to be decided by the teacher.
This offer is part of the following study plans:
Master of Biology: AR Erasmus Mundus Joint Master Degree in Tropical Biodiversity and Ecosystems, start at Brussels
Master of Biology: AR Erasmus Mundus Joint Master Degree in Tropical Biodiversity and Ecosystems, start at Cayenne