3 ECTS credits
90 u studietijd
Aanbieding 1 met studiegidsnummer 4018763DNR voor alle studenten in het 1e semester met een inleidend master niveau.
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.
De beoordeling bestaat uit volgende opdrachtcategorieën:
Examen Andere bepaalt 100% van het eindcijfer
Binnen de categorie Examen Andere dient men volgende opdrachten af te werken:
Exam : Oral (presentation & assesment)
2ndsession : oral or written exam to be decided by the teacher.
Deze aanbieding maakt deel uit van de volgende studieplannen:
Master of Biology: AR Erasmus Mundus Joint Master Degree in Tropical Biodiversity and Ecosystems, start at Brussels (enkel aangeboden in het Engels)
Master of Biology: AR Erasmus Mundus Joint Master Degree in Tropical Biodiversity and Ecosystems, start at Cayenne (enkel aangeboden in het Engels)