Marine and Coastal Ecosystems II

Recommended Prerequisites

Not applicable.

Teaching Methods

Lectures, excursion and seminar.

Learning Outcomes

During this course students have attended advanced lectures and practical exercises. They have carried outown tasks, learned to discuss system boundary conditions and present their results in a small oral powerpoint presentation. They will be introduced to ecosystem models for describing status of ecosystems, ecosystem services and for small field experiments. The advanced studies enable them to use a holistic ecosy-stem approach not only in marine and coastal systems but also in other fields of ecology.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

Advanced lectures on ecology of coastal and marine areas•Advanced lectures on ecosystem services and human- nature interactions•Own projects on ecosystem analysis and experiments•Own projects on ecosystem modelling•Environmental Debate.

Head Lecturer(s)

José Paulo Filipe Afonso de Sousa

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Report of a seminar or field trip: 100.0%

Bibliography

Marine ecology: processes, systems and impacts/ M.J. Kaiser et al., 2nd edition, 2011, Oxford UniversityPressNetwork analysis in Marine Ecology, Methods and Applications/ F. Wulff, J.G. Field, K.H.Mann (Eds.), Sprin-ger, 1989Marine ecology: processes, systems and impacts/ M.J. Kaiser et al., 2nd edition, 2011Network analysis in Marine Ecology, Methods and Applications/ F. Wulff, J.G. Field, K.H.Mann (Eds.), Sprin-ger, 1989.