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EK3502: EXPERIMENTAL COMMUNITY ECOLOGY (2019-2020)

Last modified: 25 Sep 2019 09:58


Course Overview

This course will enable you to develop your skills in experimental design, laboratory and data analysis whilst studying fundamental ecological principles such as herbivory, predation and competition. You will keep detailed lab books to improve note-keeping skills and gain experience of analysing data generated from your own experiments as well as writing this up in a journal format. Use of model experimental systems will allow you to manipulate conditions to alter experimental outcomes and relate this to real-world settings.

Course Details

Study Type Undergraduate Level 3
Session Second Sub Session Credit Points 15 credits (7.5 ECTS credits)
Campus Aberdeen Sustained Study No
Co-ordinators
  • Dr Clare Trinder
  • Professor David Burslem

What courses & programmes must have been taken before this course?

  • Either Programme Level 3 or Programme Level 4
  • One of BI2018 Biological Enhanced Skills Training (Best) (Passed) or BI2019 Community Ecology (Passed) or BI2020 Ecology (Passed) or BI2509 Conservation Biology (Passed) or BI25P3 Biological Topics in Plant and Soil Science (Passed) or BI25P4 Plants, People, and the Environment (Passed)
  • One of BSc Biology or BSc Conservation Biology or BSc Plant Biology or Non-Graduating Student in Plant & Soil Science Erasmus or BSc Zoology or BSc Animal Ecology or Non-Graduating Student in Zoology Erasmus or BSc Marine Biology or BSc Parasitology or BSc Animal Behaviour or BSc Behavioural Biology or MSci Biological Sciences or BSc Biological Sciences (Honours) or BSc Plant and Soil Sciences or Bachelor Of Science In Environmental And Forest Management or Non-Graduating Student in Agriculture and Forestry Erasmus or BSc Ecology or BSc Wildlife Management or BSc Forestry or Non-Graduating Student in Forestry Iss or BSc Forest Sciences or BSc Environmental Science or Non-Graduating Student in Science First Half-Session or Non-Graduating Student in Science Full Year or Non-Graduating Student in Science Eu or Non-Graduating Student in Science Iss
  • Any Undergraduate Programme (Studied)

What other courses must be taken with this course?

None.

What courses cannot be taken with this course?

Are there a limited number of places available?

No

Course Description

This course will enable you to develop your skills in experimental design, laboratory and data analysis whilst studying fundamental ecological principles such as herbivory, predation and competition. You will keep detailed lab books to improve note-keeping skills and gain experience of analysing data generated from your own experiments as well as writing this up in a journal format. Use of model experimental systems will allow you to manipulate conditions to alter experimental outcomes and relate this to real-world settings.


Contact Teaching Time

Information on contact teaching time is available from the course guide.

Teaching Breakdown

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Details, including assessments, may be subject to change until 31 August 2023 for 1st half-session courses and 22 December 2023 for 2nd half-session courses.

Summative Assessments

Write up first experiment

Assessment Type Summative Weighting 45
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Learning Outcomes
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Lab Book

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Write up second experiment

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Formative Assessment

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Resit Assessments

Resubmission of failed element

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