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Seminar Nature conservation and ecology of plant populations and communities

Lecturer (assistant)
Markus Bauer
Number 0240241395
Type seminar
Duration 2 SWS
Term Wintersemester 2025/26
Language of instruction German
Position within curricula See TUMonline
Dates See TUMonline

Admission information

See TUMonline
Note: Registration in TUMonline Seminar on Tuesdays, 13-15 in U1 https://nav.tum.de/room/4219.U1.001 (associated lecture on Mondays 10:15-12, O20; https://nav.tum.de/room/4219.01.020; LV-No. 240234889) The seminar topics will be assigned on the first date. Afterwards there is a break of about three weeks before the first presentations start.

Objectives

After attending the module courses, students will be able to describe the processes of populations and plant communities and explain the underlying processes. They will also be able to evaluate the results of field surveys and derive consequences for the protection and management of species.
After the seminar, students will be able to comprehensibly reproduce, evaluate and critically analyze articles and relate them to higher-level processes of population biology or community ecology.

Description

The seminar deals with current topics in conservation biology and restoration ecology. In this way, current specialist discussions are presented and placed in the context of patterns of populations and plant communities and the underlying processes presented in the lecture.

Prerequisites

Basic ecology

Teaching and learning methods

For the seminar, students independently search for scientific literature on the assigned topics. They present the topics with a review and an original research paper in a seminar talk (15 min.) and make connections to the lecture.

Examination

The overall grade for the module is made up of the grade for the oral examination (20 min.) for the lecture (70%) and the presentation (15 min. lecture, 15 min. discussion) for the seminar (30%)
In this way, the students' understanding of the complex material is assessed using two different methods.

Recommended literature

Reviews of...

Annual Reviews in Ecology, Evolution and Systematics
Biological Reviews
Trends in Ecology & Evolution

Original research of...

Applied Vegetation Science
Basic and Applied Ecology
Ecosphere
Ecological Applications
Ecology
Functional Ecology
Journal of Applied Ecology
Journal of Ecology
Journal of Vegetation Science
Oecologia
Oikos
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B
Restoration Ecology

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